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Alintatas is of a beautiful yellow colour. Malatapay is also yellow, or rather coffee-coloured, and is well veined for ornament. Lanete is a white wood, and is made use of for a variety of purposes.
"You should think so," answered her father. "It is the lanete. Its wood is so strong and pliable, that your violin was made from part of one." "Here's a skipping rope," exclaimed Filippa. "No, a boat rope," explained Fil. "That is really the bejuco rattan vine," remarked the Padre, who knew botany and the lore of nature.
Sebastian, even though I don't have great confidence in his power, because the curate recites the masses fast and hurriedly, he's an entirely new saint and doesn't yet know how to perform miracles, and isn't made of batikulin but of lanete. Ay, what will your father say to me when I die and see him again!"
kamagon: A tree of the ebony family, from which fine cabinet-wood is obtained. Its fruit is the mabolo, or date-plum. lanete: A variety of timber used in carving. linintikan: A Tagalog exclamation of disgust or contempt "thunder!" Malacañang: The palace of the Captain-General: from the vernacular name of the place where it stands, "fishermen's resort."
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