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“While a number of historians have studied St. Malo and its inhabitants, documents about the site are scarce. Academics often cite an 1883 Harper’s Weekly article by journalist Lafcadio Hearn, who traveled to the site in search of the Filipino settlers. 

Hearn described an eerie trip through the marsh that led to a hidden village of ‘fantastic houses … poised upon slender supports above the marsh, like cranes or bitterns watching for scaly prey.’

The ‘cinnamon-colored’ inhabitants were ‘strange, wild, picturesque,’ he wrote, noting that they often sent money home to ‘aid friends in emigrating.’ An illustrator named J.O. Davidson who traveled with Hearn sketched mysterious houses and swarthy men. His drawings were later made into engravings for the article and are now the only images of St. Malo that exist.”

Composite of five wood engravings of drawings by Charles Graham after sketches by J.O. Davidson, from the 1883 Harper's Weekly article by Lafcadio Hearn. Library of Congress.

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southeast asia

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An early Philippine flag dated to the Philippine-American War. (Source)

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✨️ New up on the shop! Hand-crafted jewelry straight from the Philippines and 3 copies of the newly published English translation of the oldest Bikolano dictionary, "Vocabulario de la Lengua Bicol" by Marcos de Lisboa. Once these 3 available copies are sold out, I will be taking pre-orders for more copies.

Also, a few more books have been added to the shop! Most are restock of some books including "Song of the Babaylan" which has been highly requested and I currently have 6 copies of.

For all those who bought pre-ordered books from late May to early June, the books are currently in the process of being shipped from the Philippines this week and should all arrive via DHL by early next week. Shipping will start to take place in the first week of July.

➡️ Visit hirayabotanicals.com to shop handcrafted candles dedicated to the deities in various mythologies from the Philippines, jewelry, and books.

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✨️ After months of planning, the Filipino Book and Study Club is now up and running! 🇵🇭📚

Starting in July, we will be discussing 2 books, Barangay by William Henry Scott and History of the Bisayans Volume 1, the English translation of Francisco Alcina's works in 1668 by Kobak.

I will also be hosting my first class in awhile! We will be discussing various deities from the Philippines, the babaylan, and traditional tattooing. It will be held on Friday, July 19. Time will be announced in the coming weeks once we get closer.

Scanned pdfs chapters of Barangay and History of the Bisayans will be available on my Patreon later this week to those in the Mayari Tier on my Patreon. I will also be posting a study guide for you all based on July's chapter readings. These study guides and scanned pdfs of books will be available to both the Apo Laki and Mayari Tiers.

If you have any questions, feel free to ask! And if you know someone who would be interested in joining the Filipino Book & Study Club, share this post to them or tag them.

I look forward to having the first class of this year we you all!

➡️ LINK TO MY PATREON

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Happy Arbor Day!

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Jesuit missionaries in Mindanao. Photographs from Recuerdos de Mindanao (1888), author unknown.

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For those not in the know, this is one of the Amanita mushrooms referred to as a Destroying Angel. Never, ever, ever, ever forage with an app. Especially for mushrooms.

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Vampires & Vampire Hunters but make it about during the late 1800s in the Philippines

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Free Palestine protesters shut down the Golden Gate Bridge and 880 freeway in Oakland. This is huge🫡

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It legitimately amazes me how the “We can't allow the Holocaust to happen again” crowd can look at something like this and still claim that the Israeli government isn’t committing any war crimes.

Absolutely horrific stuff.

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Palestine will be free in our lifetime 🇵🇸🍉🕊️ Don't look away, and let's keep supporting Palestine in any way we can.

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I apologize for calling Macklemore cringe

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It’s so sad that in order to get people to care about Palestine, we completely ignore the thousands of innocent men who have been killed in this genocide. We have to say “children”, or “women and children”, with slightly lower numbers, because the full death count is somehow seen as less tragic when we include men.

My heart aches for the innocent men of Palestine who have been slaughtered. You mattered just as much as anyone else. And for the men who are doing everything in their power to help their fellow Palestinians, we love and respect you. Thank you for all that you do.

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Here's a website where Palestine GoFundMes are vetted and shared that you can send out to people. The url is gazafunds.com

Easy to use and simple. Just share the site whenever someone asks for GFMs for Palestine.