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Updated: May 6, 2025
We can make use of it to get to Binangonan, and there we shall be safe from the poisoned arrows of these dogs the Ajetas." This discovery was either that Providence had come to our aid, or it was a complication of dangers greater than those reserved to us on land on awaking in the morning.
Interments take place without any ceremony. The dead body is laid at full length in a grave, which is covered up with earth. But whenever one of the Ajetas is dangerously ill, and his recovery despaired of, or that he has been even slightly wounded by a poisoned arrow, his friends place him seated in a deep hole, with the arms crossed over his breast, and thus inter him while living.
That hand horrified me; yet I examined it most carefully, and it appeared to me to have been the hand of a child of an Ajetas, a species of savages that inhabit the mountains of Nueva-Exica and Maribèles, of which race I shall have an opportunity of speaking during the course of this work.
The noise caused by the movement of the gun-lock was sufficient to frighten them: they threw down their light, and scampered off like two wild beasts, in the highest alarm, to hide themselves in the forest. Their appearance was enough to prove that we were in a place frequented by the Ajetas.
The hunters then cut out the flesh around the wound, and use the remainder as food, without any danger; but if they neglect this precaution, the meat becomes so exceedingly bitter that even the Ajetas themselves cannot eat it. Never having given credit to the famous boab of Java, I made experiments at Sumatra on the sort of poison of which the Malays make use to poison their weapons.
I Determine not again to Separate from my Son I take him to Manilla The Effects of the Wound I received among the Ajetas My Recovery Kindness of the Spanish and other Inhabitants of Manilla Illness of my Son I return with him to Jala-Jala Sorrowful Remembrances The Death of my poor Boy His Interment My frantic Grief and Despair I Determine to Quit the Philippines I am Called to Manilla by Madame Dolorès Seneris My Final Departure from Jala-Jala I Arrive at Manilla, where I resume Practice as a Surgeon I Embark for France Discontent My Travels through Europe I Marry again Death of my Mother and my Second Wife Conclusion.
The Arab wanderers, the wild men of the forest, the jabbering Ajetas, the South Sea Islanders, the wall-girt Chinamen, the sable Ethiopians, the cultured Christians, all cherish the thought of heaven another home, a final resting-place from all that wearies or troubles.
We took each of us a small haversack, containing rice for three or four days, some dried venison, a good provision of powder, ball, and shot for game, some coloured handkerchiefs, and a considerable quantity of cigars for our own use, and to insure a welcome amongst the Ajetas. Each of us carried a good double-barreled gun and his poignard.
We had taken the body out of the grave, and were beginning to pack it up piece by piece into a sack, when we heard small shrill cries at a distance. The Ajetas were coming upon us, and there was no time to be lost. We seized our prize and started off as quick as possible. We had not got a hundred yards, when we heard the arrows whistling about our ears.
The first night I spent at Manilla, I felt in the place where the wound was such extreme pain that I fell down twice totally senseless. The agony increased every instant, and became so violent that I could no longer doubt that it was caused by the poison of an arrow, shot at me by the Ajetas.
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