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Coast Surveyors followed the flag - the Texas Coast
in the 1840's, the West Coast in the late 1840's, Alaska after its purchase
in 1867, and then, the grandest of adventures, the Philippines following
the Spanish-American War. Seemingly impassable jungles; jewel-like coral
atolls and giant volcanoes piercing the clouds; giant cobras, boa constrictors,
and salt-water crocodiles; buck-naked stone-age bushmen and juramentado
natives for whom the 45-caliber pistol was invented and became standard
issue; 7,000 islands and 700 dialects; azure seas with gorgeous sunsets
that could be whipped to a frenzy by all too frequent typhoons. These
were the Philippines. Come share this grandest of adventures ....
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