[24] This statement proved to be untrue. They number about twenty-five thousand.
[25] Not so serious a matter as it may seem, when houses are made of gra.s.s and can be speedily rebuilt.
[26] Bronze timbrels.
[27] The words ladrones and tulisanes are used indiscriminately in the Philippines to designate armed robbers and brigands.
[28] A fighting knife of deadly effectiveness.
[29] A governor of a province may, with the approval of the Secretary of the Interior, require members of a non-Christian tribe to take up their residence on land reserved for such purpose if he deems such a course to be in the interest of public order. The object of this provision is to make it possible to compel lawless persons to live in reasonably accessible places. In only three instances has it been necessary to exercise this authority. Tumay and his people were outlaws and were living in a nipa swamp where it would have been almost impossible to attack them successfully.
[30] One of the most influential of the Palawan Moro chiefs.
[31] Blount, p. 543.
[32] Ibid., p. 573.
[33] "The Philippine Islands and Their People," by Dean C. Worcester, p. 480.
[34] Blount, p. 580.
[35] Blount, p. 581.
[36] Blount.
[37] Ibid., pp. 581-582.
[38] Blount, p. 576.
[39] William F. Pack, governor of the Mountain Province.
[40] Blount, p. 577.
[41] Blount, pp. 567-568.
[42] Sub-province of Tayabas.
[43] Exclusive of sub-province of Marinduque.
[44] Page 999.
[45] Blount, pp. 231-232.
[46] Blount, p. 232.
[47] Blount, pp. 583-584.
[48] The Philippine Islands and Their People, by Dean C. Worcester, p. 481.
[49] See p. 639.
[50] Blount, p. 230.
[51] Men who have taken a solemn oath to die killing Christians.
[52] Blount, p. 584.
[53] Delivered October 10, 1910.
[54] Blount, p. 577.
[55] In Nueva Vizcaya.
[56] Blount, p. 577.
[57] P. I. R., 150. 4.
[58] Ibid.
[59] Page 542.
[60] Evil spirits.
[61] This is only too true!
[62] Rizal"s 1890 edition of Morga"s "Sucesos de las Islas Filipinas,"
p. 297, et seq.
[63] "Sucesos," p. 300.
[64] Ibid., p. 305.
[65] "The Filipino People," Vol. 2, No. 1, p. 15, September, 1913.
[66] On July 15, 1913, I published an official report, as secretary of the interior, on "Slavery and Peonage in the Philippine Islands." It is hereinafter referred to in foot-notes under the t.i.tle of "Slavery and Peonage." Beginning on p. 84 of this doc.u.ment will be found extracts from court records showing convictions obtained under this act, which is quoted in full on p. 83 of the same doc.u.ment.
[67] For the full text of this interesting and important report see "Slavery and Peonage," p. 85.
[68] This valley includes the Provinces of Cagayan and Isabela.
[69] For the full text of this doc.u.ment see "Slavery and Peonage,"
pp. 12-14.
[70] 1913.
[71] For the full text of this doc.u.ment see "Slavery and Peonage,"
pp. 23-25.