The Friars in the Philippines

CHAPTER I.

THE WORK OF THE RELIGIOUS ORDERS IN THE PHILIPPINES.

A recent traveller designates the Philippines as the birthplace of typhoons, the home of earthquakes,--epithets undoubtedly strong yet well deserved; and typhoons at certain seasons of the year, with earthquakes at uncertain periods, when taken together with the torrid heat, trying at all seasons, and the malaria ...