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Clustered around the walls of Manila in the latter half of the seventeenth century were little villages the names of which, in some instances slightly changed, are the names of present districts. A fashionable drive then was through the settlement of Filipinos in Bagumbayan the "new town" to which Lakandola's subjects had migrated when Legaspi dispossessed them of their own "Maynila."
Austin Craig - Lineage, Life and Labors of José Rizal, Philippine Patriot
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