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The Philippines: Past and Present (vol. 1 of 2)

CHAPTER XVII
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No charge is exacted for its use, but if an admission fee is collected, a liberal percentage of the proceeds must go to some worthy charity.

It has been terraced in stone by Igorot labourers; the trees originally standing in it have been protected, and tree ferns, shrubs and flowering plants have been added.

The result beggars description, and photographs do it scant justice.
Igorots from Bontoc, and even Ifugaos, now visit Baguio with increasing frequency, attracted by a large market established especially for the benefit of the hill people, where they may sell their manufactured articles or agricultural products, and may purchase at moderate cost the commodities which they need.

The Benguet Igorots do not raise rice enough for their own use.

Formerly they had to make up the shortage by eating _camotes_, but they have now become so prosperous that they can afford to buy rice, which is carted in over the Benguet Road.
There are promising gold mines close at hand.


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