Crossword-Solution: ILIGAN 6 letters, 1 clue 🏆 scrabble score: 7

That afternoon a schooner was hired, and five miles of cable for the Misamis shore end of Iligan's line of communication was put aboard her.

This was all completed by ten o'clock, and we were under way for Iligan, towing the schooner at our stern.

Chapter IV ILIGAN Our first glimpse of Iligan was not assuring, as only the Headquarters Building could be seen from the harbour, and in front of it, reaching to the left for some distance, stood a long, single row of cocoanut-palms, so tall that the green foliage was far above the top of the house, making the trees look like stiff bouquets in absurdly long wooden holders.

With the exception of two or three very good little shops, run of course by the ubiquitous Chinaman, at which one could purchase Moro turbans, _sarongs_--the long skirt-like garments in which Moro men and women wrap themselves--_petates_, or sleeping mats of split bamboo, and other like curios, Iligan is a most unattractive and desolate place, by God forsaken and by man forgot.

Market-day, which comes every Saturday at Iligan, made a break in the dull uniformity of our several visits there.