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Title: The Philippine Islands Year: 1899 (1890s) Authors: Lala, Ramon Reyes Subjects: Philippines -- Description and travel Publisher: New York : Continental Pub. Co. Contributing Library: Robarts - University of Toronto Digitizing Sponsor: MSN

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Text Appearing Before Image: etive, but often loquacious.He is naturally curious and inquisitive, but always polite, andrespectful withal—especially to his superiors. He is passionate,and, in common with ail half-civilized races, is cruel to his foes.The quality of mercy, like the sentiment—as distinguished fromthe passion—of love, is perhaps more the product of the philosophyof civilization than a natural attribute of the human heart. The The Various Tribes. 85 romantic history of Mediaeval Europe, as compared with tlie placidpresent, is proof of this. All travelers unite in attributing to the natives extreme familyaffection. They are very fond of their children, who, as a rule,are respectful and well-behaved. The noisy little hoodlums ofEuropean and American cities are utterly unknown. The oldare tenderly cared for, and are venerated ; while in almost everywell-to-do household are one or two poor relatives who, whilemere hangers-on, are, nevertheless, always made welcome to the ^^il^p^^S F/L^arLEui^ijsyri

Text Appearing After Image: INTERIOR 01-- A NATIVE HUT. table of their host. Indeed, the hospitality of the Filipinos isproverbial. A guest is always welcome, and welcome to the best.The better class, too, gladly embrace every opportunity to feasttheir neighbors or the stranger within their gates. As a rule, the people are superstitious and very credulous ; buthow could they be otherwise ? For three hundred years they havebeen denied even the liberty of investigation ; when no light, savethe dim glimmer of priestcraft pierced the utter darkness of their 86 The Philippine Islands. lot. Those tliat have been educated, however, have proved aptconverts—only too apt say the priests and the Spaniards—to the conclusions of Scienceand of modern re-search. The native is rarelyhumorous, and seldomwitty. He is not easilymoved to anger, andwhen angry does notoften show it. Whenhe does, like the Malayof Java, he is prone tolose all control of him-self, and, with de-structive energy, slaysall in his path. Thisis infrequen

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