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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: istricts to seegroups of naked men plunging with drawn dagger among a shoal of sharks, with whomthey fight with a fierce-ness that always re-sults in the victory ofthe native. Along the beach atManila, on a summerevening, at the closeof the days labor, hun-dreds of hands fromthe various tobaccofactories — men,women, and children,of all ages and sizes,married and unmar-ried—may be seen dis-port ing themselves,with peals of laughterand squeals of delight,in the cool surf. As a result of thestoicism of the nativecharacter, he neverbewails a misfortune, and has no fear of death. When any-thing happens he merely says. It is fate, and calmly goes abouthis business as if nothing had happened. Europeans often seem to notice in them what they deem alack of sympathy for the misfortunes of others ; but it is notthis so much as resignation to the inevitable. This, it must beconfessed, saves them many a bitter pang. The educated na-tive, however, impregnated with _ the bitter philosophy of the

Text Appearing After Image: THE IGORROTES. The Various Tribes. 8^ civilized world, is by no means so imperturbable. While morekeenly alive to the sufferings of others, he is also more sensitiveto his own sorrows. After all, whether he is any happier for hiswisdom, is a question. Incomprehensible inconsistencies obtain in nearly every native.Students of character may, therefore, study the Filipinos foryears, and yet, at last, have no definite impression of theirmental or moral status. Of course those living in the cities are lessbaffling to the physiognomist and the ethnologist ; for endemicpeculiarities have been rubbed off or so modified, that the racialtraits are not obvious. But observe the natives in the wilds, in their primitive abodes,where civilizing forces have not penetrated ! You will then beamazed at the extraordinary mingling and clashing of antitheticalcharacteristics in one and the same person ; uncertain as to whenthe good or the bad may be manifested. Like the wind, the moodcomes and goes,—and

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