Originally published in 1892, the marvellous career of the man who, in thirty years, accumulated the colossal fortune of $100,000,000 - by far exceeding in rapidity and volume that of any other man to that time.

The purpose of the writer of the pages herewith presented has been to offer, in popular form, the truth touching the Philippine Islands. I made the journey from New York to Manila, to have the benefit of personal observations in preparing a history for the people. Detention at Honolulu shortened my stay in Manila, but there was much in studies at the former place that was a help at the latter.