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Identifier: inhabitantsofphi00sawy (find matches)
Title: The inhabitants of the Philippines
Year: 1900 (1900s)
Authors: Sawyer, Frederic Henry Read
Subjects: Ethnology -- Philippines Philippines -- Social life and customs
Publisher: New York : Scribner
Contributing Library: University of California Libraries
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dof the feast, the emissary who first solicited her hand forhis friend conducts her to the house of the bridegroom,accompanied by the guests singing verses allusive to theoccasion, and cracking jokes more or less indecent. Contrary to the custom in other countries, it is easier toget divorced than to get married, for this is the privilege ofthe man, who can repudiate his wife at any time. They celebrate the baptism of their children, and thecircumcision of their boys, with feasts and entertainments.They fire off cannon and lantacas on the death of a datto,and with all sorts of instruments make a hideous discord infront of the house of death. Professional wallers are employed, and the pandits gothrough many days of long-winded prayer, for which theyreceive most ample fees. They have regular cemeteries, and, after the burial,place on the grave the head of a cock with a hot cinderon the top of it. I am quite unable to explain whatmeaning is attached to this custom, but they are soaked in
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MORO LANTACAS AND COAT OF MAIL. (To/acc />. 373. MOROS: THEIR HOUSES yji all sorts of superstitions, and thoroughly believe in amuletsor talismen, as do the Tagals in their Anting-Anting. Owing to the multitude of slaves they possess, theymake considerable plantations of rice, maize, coffee, andcacao. They sell the surplus of this produce to Chinamenor Visayas settled in the coast towns, as also wax, gum,resin, jungle-produce, tortoise-shell, mother-of-pearl shell,balate and cinnamon. It is estimated that they sell produceto the value of a million dollars a year. They also employtheir slaves in washing the sands for gold, and, accordingto Nieto, in mining for silver and other metal. I have not seen this latter statement confirmed by anyother author. Their industries are the forging of swords, cris, andlance-heads, casting and boring their lantacas. To bore these long guns they sink them in a pitramming in the earth so as to keep the piece in a trulyvertical position. They then bore

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