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Updated: May 11, 2025
"The wife of Capitan Tinong, you remember her, the woman in whose house we danced and dined during the fiesta of Tondo " "The one who has two daughters? What about her?" "Well, that woman just this afternoon presented the Captain-General with a ring worth a thousand pesos!" The one-armed man turned around. "Is that so? Why?" he asked with shining eyes. "She said that it was a Christmas gift "
His pesos and influence, like alcohol, penetrated and dominated the mass.... Signs vehemently proclaimed that American beer was important among the imports of Equatoria; and in a certain street he encountered pitiful smiles and furtive gestures from the upper balconies. "Strange," he thought, "wherever lawless men gather, their mates fly after them from court and slum.
Carabaos are at present valued in Bontoc at about 50 pesos, and hogs average about 8 pesos. All rich people own one or more gold earrings valued at from one to two carabaos each. The so-called richest man in Bontoc, Lak-ay'-eng, has the following visible personal property: Articles Value in peso Fifty carabaos, at 50 pesos each 2,500 Thirty hogs, at 8 pesos each 240
Jest now he descends onto me an' e'labe'rately states his title to ten pesos. Says he's done j'ined a new church, an' has been made round-up boss or somethin' to a outfit called, 'The Afro- American Widows' Ready Relief Society, an' that his doos is ten chips. Of course, he has to have the dinero, so I dismisses him for my wallet like I says. "Does them folks change their names?
"Why, if the government troops out there in the hills with Alvarez knew we were paying sixty pesos for soldiers, they'd run to join us so quick that they'd die on the way of sunstroke. But that's not it. Where do we come in? What do we get out of this? Have we been fighting for three months just to pay the troops who have been fighting against us? Charity begins at home, I think."
A pineapple plantation, for the investor of limited means, ought to prove profitable and encouraging. The first year of cultivation will produce a crop, at a final cost of 40 pesos an acre, including the land-rent. The return is put down at 200 pesos, leaving a gorgeous net profit of 160 pesos.
Once he caught one of them, who had preached treason against him within reach of his arm, and released him again only upon payment of five thousand pesos. Another, for a like offence, was put into the guard-house, and required to ransom himself at twenty-five hundred.
The articles of importation from the United States were principally timber, staves for sugar-casks, flour and other provisions, and furniture. The financial history of Puerto Rico commences about the middle of the eighteenth century. In 1758 the revenues amounted to 6,858 pesos. In 1765, to 10,814, and in 1778 to 47,500.
And it must not appear to him that forty thousand pesos in gold is more than a representation of it; because they might have had a much greater quantity if Satan had not hindered it by impeding my design; for, when I was taken away from the Indies, I was prepared to give them a sum of gold incomparable to forty thousand pesos.
The slaves in Puerto Rico were not emancipated until March 22, 1873, when 31,000 were manumitted in one day, at a cost to the Government of 200 pesos each, plus the interest on the bonds that were issued. The nature of the relations between the master and the slave in Puerto Rico probably did not differ much from that which existed between them in the other Spanish colonies.
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