A French ship’s surgeon who settled in Luzon in the 1820s tells how he founded the plantation colony of Jala-Jala on the Laguna de Bay, fought bandits, treated cholera, and travelled among the Tagals and the hill peoples of the interior. He wrote it partly to answer Alexandre Dumas, who had turned him into a character in a romance.
Colourful, sometimes tall-sounding memoirs of Spanish colonial Philippines from a man who lived there for two decades. Download the free EPUB.