Sailing from San Francisco by way of Japan, Shanghai and Hong Kong, Emily Bronson Conger reaches the Philippines while the insurrection is still being fought. She writes about Iloilo and Jaro, markets, festivals, weddings and domestic life, a shipwreck and Governor Taft’s visit, from the confident colonial viewpoint of an American of 1900.
A vivid, opinionated record of the American occupation as one civilian woman lived it. Download the free EPUB.