Bongao blockhouse (1923)
With prints
Filipinas Heritage Library
Sydney A. Cloman. Myself and a Few Moros. 1923. 12.
Reproduction: Photograph
The Block House and Steamer Landing at Jolo At Bongao, Colonel Cloman found a similar block house to the one shown here, into which the Spaniards who preceded him on the island had been accustomed to retire each evening, leaving the natives to their "harmless" pastime of firing at its impervious walls. Colonel Cloman, however, decided not to adopt such tactics, and from the first kept his men in small thatched houses which they built.
Keywords: 1923; Provinces and cities; Jolo, Sulu; 1923; cloman; jolo; mindanao; myself and a few moros; spaniards; sulu; tawi-tawi; thatched houses