Note 2 — Chapter I · View Point and Subject-Matter

During this trip we lived in even closer contact with the Filipino2 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.