Troops were urged upon us for our protection when we desired to penetrate regions considered to be dangerous.

Our Spanish friends constantly offered us the hospitality of their homes and with many of them the offer was more than _pro forma_.

Indeed, in several instances it was insisted upon so strongly that we accepted it, to our great pleasure and profit.
Officials were quite frank in discussing before us the affairs of their several provinces, and we gained a very clear insight into existing political methods and conditions.
During this trip we lived in even closer contact with the Filipino [2] population than on the occasion of our first visit.

Our rapidly growing knowledge of Spanish, and of Visayan, one of the more important native dialects, rendered it increasingly easy for us to communicate with them, gain their confidence and learn to look at things from their view point.

They talked with us most frankly and fully about their political troubles.
During this our second sojourn in the Philippines, which lengthened to two years and six months, we revisited the islands with which we had become more or less familiar on our first trip and added six others to the list.