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Title: Recollections of full years Year: 1914 (1910s) Authors: Taft, Helen Herron, 1861-1943 Subjects: White House (Washington, D.C.) Philippines -- Description and travel Washington (D.C.) -- Social life and customs Publisher: New York, Dodd, Mead & Company Contributing Library: New York Public Library Digitizing Sponsor: MSN

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Text Appearing Before Image: this would be the last house we would be per-mitted to occupy for many a day. We were striking straightinto the mountains and our shelter-to-be was a small fieldtent slung on the cargo saddle of a commissary mule. Captain Wilsons house was quite spacious. It had tworooms; one small and one large one. The ladies slept inthe smaller room on Army cots, while the four stalwartofficers of our military escort stretched themselves out onblankets and slickers on the split bamboo floor of the largerroom. The walls and partitions were of woven nipa palmleaves, known locally as suali, while the two windows weremade of braided bamboo and were set in grooves so, whenwe wanted to open them, all we had to do was to give them agentle shove. There were no trappings of civilisation,but we managed to be perfectly comfortable. The next day, before the sun was very high, we found our-selves in the midst of mountain-tops, on a trail which rose ingreat upward sweeps around the densely wooded slopes, to 190

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