I may say, in concluding this subject, that hemp is the mostimportant article of Philippine product, and that its production iscapable of being greatly increased. The official documents that I haveexamined in Manila show that within the last decade the United Stateshas received fully forty per cent. of all the hemp-product of theislands. In the ten years previous to 1898 a single firm in Bostonbought 79,000 tons of hemp, paying for it an average price of 3 cents apound in the Manila market. During this period the total export of hempwas 914,100 tons. The import to the United States during the same timeaveraged in value $2,400,000 a year. A liberal and progressiveadministration will soon increase this tenfold.
They are powerfully built, and of good stature. The men wear short drawers, and on grand occasions don an embroidered jacket. Both men and women wear large ear-ornaments. The women are clad in a bodice and patadion with ornaments of shells, beads, or small bells. The men are of a bold and warlike disposition, ready to fight against other villages of their tribe when not at war with the Manobos, the Guiangas, or the Manguangas, their neighbours. They have a language of their own which has a great affinity to the Visaya.
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