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Updated: May 31, 2025
"God help us!" added the old man, rolling his quid of buyo. "If Andoy gets to be Pope we'll go to Rome he, he! I can still walk well, and if I die he, he!" "Don't worry, granddad! Andoy won't forget that you taught him how to weave baskets." "You're right, Petra. I also believe that your son will be great, at least a patriarch. I have never seen any one who learned the business in a shorter time.
gobernadorcillo: "Petty governor," the principal municipal official also, in Manila, the head of a commercial guild. gumamela: The hibiscus, common as a garden shrub in the Philippines. kalan: The small, portable, open, clay fireplace commonly used in cooking. kalikut: A short section of bamboo for preparing the buyo; a primitive betel-box.
The stomach he made into a basket. He put into the basket the betel and the lime and the pungaman and the buyo, and crawled away. Soon he heard the noise of many animals gathered together. He found the monkeys and the deer and the pigs and the wild birds having a big rice-planting. All the animals were rejoiced to see the Tortoise coming with a basket, for they all wanted to chew betel.
Good Manila horses are of the latter type, and are much prized by the Europeans in Chinese seaport towns. Compare Hernandez, Opera Omnia; Torquemada, Monarchia Indica. Buyo is the name given in the Philippines to the preparation of betel suitable for chewing. Twelve lines are omitted here. 4 lines are omitted. In the country it is believed that swine's flesh often causes this malady.
Very frequently have I been invited to enter their houses in the country, when loitering about during the heat of the sun, under the protection of an immense and thick sombrero which prevented me suffering much from the exposure; and on going into one of them, after the host or hostess had accommodated me with a seat on the banco of bamboo, a cigarillo, or the buyo, which is universally chewed by them, and composed of the betel nut and lime spread over an envelope of leaf, such as nearly all Asiatics use, has been offered by the handsome, though swarthy, hands of the hostess or of a grown-up daughter: or, if their rice was cooking at the time, often have I been invited to share it, and have sometimes so made a most excellent and hearty meal, using the natural aid of the fingers in place of a spoon, or other of the customary aids for eating.
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