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 580 UNITED STATES: — PHILIPPINE ISLANDS

harbour and has been transformed into a naval base. It is the rendezvous of the U.S. Atlantic and Carribean squadrons.

British Consul. — W. B. Churchward.

Books of Eeference.

Insular and Municipal Finances of Porto Ilico for 1905-06. Bulletin of Census Bureau. Washington, 1907.

Report on the Census of Porto Rico. Washington, 1900.

Report on the Island of Porto Rico, ity population, (fee, by H. K. CarrolK Washington; 1899.— Register of Porto Rico, 1910, by same.

Reports on the Agricultural Resources and on the Industrial and Economic Resource of Porto Rico. Washington, 1900.

Annual Reports, Governor of Porto Rico.

Official Gazette of Porto Rico, published bi-monthly, by Secretary of Porto Rico.

Monthly Summary of Finance and Commerce of the United States. Washington.

Dmu;idrfie (W.), Puerto Rico. London, 1899.

Fiske(A. K.), History oftlie Islands of the West Indian Archipelago. New York, 1899.

Hill(R. T.), Cuba and Porto Rico. London, 1898.

Leslie's Official History of the Spanish American War. Washington, 1899.

Morns (R.), Our Island Empire. Philadelphia, 1899.

Ober (F. A.), Puerto Rico and its Resom-ces. New York, 1899.

PHILIPPINE ISLANDS.

These islands, ceded by Spain to the United States by the treaty signed by the Peace Commissioners, December 10, 1898, extend almost due north and south from Formosa to Borneo and the Moluccas, embracing an extent of 16° of latitude and 9° of longitude.

Governor-General. — W. Cameron Forbes appointed November 11, 1909.

Vice- Govern or. ^-'^Q\i ion W. Gilbert, appointed February 10, 1910.

Area and Population. — The islands and islets are about 3,141 in number; the two largest are Luzon (40,969 square miles) and Mindanao (36,292 square miles), and the total area, including the Sulu Islands, is estimated at 127,853 square miles. An estimate of the population made by the United States Bureau of Statistics in 1911, and based on the census of 1903, put the total at 8,368,427. Owing to the fact that the census in question greatly underestimated the numbers of certain uncivilised tribes, then little known, the j>resent correct fif;ure is ]U'obably near 8,600,000, giving a density of population of 67 per square mile. Approximately 1,000,000 of the population are non-Christians and more primitive than the Christianised peoples.

The capital of the Archipelago is Manila, constituted as a province, with (1910) 234,409 inhabitants. Other towns with their estimated present population are : Iloilo on Panay, 60,000 (including suburbs) ; Cebu on Cebu, 60,000 (including suburbs) ; Laoag, 43,000 : Aibay (including Legaspi), 40,000; Nueva Caeeres, 40,000; Vigan, 38,000, (all on Luzon); and Zamboanga on Mindanao, 24,000. Baguio in the Mountain Province, Luzon, is the summer capital, corresponding to Simla in Lidia.

Movement of Population. — Vital statistics are as yet restricted to Manila, which, with a po])ulation (1910) of 234,409 had in the year ending June 30, 1912, 8,633 deaths (or 36-82 per 1,000) and 9,340 births (or 39-84 per 1,000). Among the American residents, however, the death-rate is only 10 to 15 per 1,000.

About 40 per cent, of the recorded deaths are those of infants under one