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

AN OFFICIAL'S WIFE

claims " near the camp. At intervals all along the
road we saw little tunnels dug into the rock three
or four feet deep, and as high as a man's head.
These " show intention,' as the miners told us. The
rock contains iron pyrites, quartz crystals, and copper ore. There were some galena specimens, silver
ore they called it, very pretty. Our trip back was
uneventful, and we were not tired, although we had
ridden sixteen miles, and most of it on a narrow
trail.
BAGUIO, May 2, 1902.
W E assisted this morning at the thatching of the
provincial hospital, which the governor is
building in the woods just below his house. The
structure cost one hundred dollars gold, and is a
good-sized building made of pine framework, woven
bamboo walls, and grass-thatched roof. For a week
or more Igorrotes of all ages, carrying great bunches
of the thatch on their heads, have been trotting up
and down the trails at a gait that over this rough
country will soon distance a good horse. Often
twenty or more Igorrotes coming down the mountainside together would be quite hidden by the
grass on their heads. The grass having been gathered, the day of thatching was announced, and a
fiesta planned. Over one hundred Igorrotes were
on the spot when we arrived. Some were tying the
bunches of thatch to the rafters with rattan; others,
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