Unofficial letters of an official's wife [by] Edith Moses.

AN OFFICIAL'S WIFE

chains of beads crossing under the chin from ear
to ear.
After the Commission had received the delegates
of the various tribes, we went back to the Sumnner
for lunch, and in the afternoon we returned to
shore and were entertained with dances. The
dances of the mountain tribes are more lively and
graceful, and more like our idea of dancing than
the Moro dances. Their anklets and bracelets made
a tinkling accompaniment to the dance. The musical instruments were three bronze tubs, beaten with
metal, and a wooden drum. The army officers at
Davao were a major in the regular army, two volunteer captains, and several lieutenants. There were
two women and a boy at the post. Three of the
officers will settle here when they are discharged
and go into the business of cattle raising and farming. There is certainly a chance to make money
here if one is willing to exile himself from civilization.
SURIGAO, April 6, I90oIi.
S INCE leaving Davao, we have been steaming
steadily for thirty-four hours. The sea was not
very rough, still several were laid low, especially
the head of the Federal party, who was the most forlorn looking Filipino imaginable. Everyone was
low-spirited and I imagine more were ill than acknowledged it. I asked several persons in a symI I I