La cour ouverte . Même les lépreux eux-mêmes. Bon La colonie est situé sur un petit promontoire à lookingeastward le port et la mer de Sulu. À la fin de ce pro-montory est un vieux fort espagnol de pierre avec son église fermée.La plupart des lépreux chrétiens sont catholiques romains, bien qu'il y a une petite église protestante dans la colonie, en charge d'un leprousnative ministre. Les lépreux sont portées par les différentes îles des Philip- 680 La Cour ouverte à pins. cette colonie si vite qu'il est avec grande difficulté que theycarl accueillir ; mais tous sont faits à l'aise, en fait muchmore

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The Open court . even the lepers themselves. The colony proper is located on a small promontory lookingeastward to the harbor and the Sulu Sea. At the end of this pro-montory is an old Spanish fort of stone with its enclosed church.Most of the Christian lepers are Roman Catholics, though thereis a small Protestant church in the colony, in charge of a leprousnative minister. The lepers are brought from the various islands of the Philip- 680 THE OPEN COURT. pines to this colony so fast that it is with great difficulty that theycarl be accommodated; but all are made comfortable, in fact muchmore comfortable, in most cases, than they would ever have beenat home. Except for homesickness, which cannot, of course, beavoided, they are quite happy, or as happy as any hopelessly sickpeople can be away from home and friends. Fine concrete dormitories are supplied, but many prefer to.build their own native houses of nipa palm and bamboo. A certainamount of help is given the lepers in building these houses on con-. CONCRETE DORMITORY AND NATIVE SHACKS. dition that they first obtain a permit and build in the proper placein relation to the streets that have been laid out. Besides the dormitories there are several concrete kitchenbuildings where the lepers can prepare their food in comfort. A plentiful supply of pure water is distributed by pipes tovarious convenient parts of the colony, and several concrete bathand wash houses are conveniently located. A concrete sewage sys-tem leads all sewage to the sea. In this tropical climate it is, of course, unnecessary to provideany means of heating the buildings. At the time of our visit alarge amusement pavilion was nearly completed where moving pic- TAY TAY AND THE LEPER COLONY OF CULION. 681 tures and other forms of entertainment will help pass the time forthese poor wretches who have nothing to look forward to but alingering death from a loathsome disease. A large number of the patients who are in the incipient stagesshowed, to the or

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