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Updated: June 23, 2025
There are doubtful traditions that Lake Bombom, a hundred square miles in extent, was formed by a terrible eruption in 1700, by which a lofty mountain 8000 or 9000 feet high, was destroyed. The vast deposits of porous tufa in the surrounding country are certainly evidences of former great eruptions from Mount Taal.
Cebu seldom loses so much as Taal, generally not more than 3 per cent. on a voyage of about two months' duration. All sugar is sold to the export merchants by the pecul of 140 lbs.
During the talk of which this is the substance, they reached the Seaton, and Malcolm took her to see his grandfather. "Taal and faer and chentle and coot!" murmured the old man as he held her hand for a moment in his. With a start of suspicion he dropped it, and cried out in alarm "She'll not pe a Cam'ell, Malcolm?" "Na, na, daddy far frae that," answered Malcolm.
The fierce grey eyes took him in, and read him, and dropped him, and fastened on the little Englishwoman, as the great boots tramped heavily across the floor, and the great voice roared, speaking in the Taal: "Pull up that blind! Voor den donder! Shall we be mice, that sit and squeak in the dark?"
They incidentally introduced the dialect of Dutch known as "The Taal," for when the speaking of Dutch was made compulsory for them, they evolved a simplified form of the language more adapted to their French tongues.
While she played with them she could forget she knew so much more than they did; that, for instance, she could read the Gospels in Greek which her father had taught her ever since she was a little child while they could scarcely spell them out in the Taal, or Boer dialect, and that they had never heard even of William the Conqueror.
But you apparently allow your following to say anything, and either pretend not to hear or take no notice. Listen to this, said by a predicant of the Dutch Reformed Church...." She picked up a pamphlet, lying near, and read aloud: "'We are a nation with our own taal, traditions, and history.
To the north was the peak of the Taal volcano, towering above the flat plains of Batangas; and to the south the thickly-wooded, but rock-bound coast of Mindoro, the iron line of which was broken by the harbor of Porto Galera, protected from the fury of the waves by a small islet lying immediately before it.
She didn't know my name, being new, but she recognised me by Billy's description, and sympathised with him, having a young man herself, who doesn't speak a word of English, except 'damn' and 'Three of Scotch, please. I've promised to translate her letters; he writes them in the Taal. And Billy gave her two dollars, and I've given her a hat.
In some respects the most interesting of these three volcanoes is that of Taal, which lies almost due south of Manila and about forty-five miles distant, on a small island in the middle of a large lake, known as Bombom or Bongbong. A remarkable feature of this volcanic mountain is that it is probably the lowest in the world, its height being only 850 feet above sea level.
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