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American and Tagalog Invaders of Visaya Compared Doubt As to the Aptitude of Filipinos for Self-Government Their Civilization Not Achieved by Themselves But Inherited from Spain Their Present Personal Liberty Belief of the Poor That Alien Occupation is the Root of Their Misery How the Filipinos View Labor Their Apathy Toward Machinery Their Interest Centred Not in Industry But in Themselves Their Hazy Conceptions of Government Their Need of a Remodelled Social System Their Jealousy Lest Others Make Large Profits in Dealing with Them Zeal of the Aristocrats to Preserve Their Prerogatives A New Aristocracy Likely to Be Raised by the American Public Schools.
It is one of the most mercantile towns of the Visaya group, and has some industries, among which are a machine shop and foundry, a carriage factory, and a hat factory. The Province of Bohol is bounded on the north by the sea between Cebu and Leyte, on the east by the Surigao Sea, on the south by the Sea of Mindanao, and on the west by the channel separating it from Cebu.
Early in the rebellion a few boat-loads of Tagalog soldiers came down from Luzon, and landed on the open north coast two miles from the town. The valiant Capizeños had dug some trenches on the beach and had thrown up a breastwork there, and they went out to fight for Spain and Visaya.
While his uncle lived he enjoyed his ease, and no difference ever happened between them; but he was afterwards blinded and kept confined to the palace of Firozeabad." This must have been after A.D. 1434. Deva Raya I. lived till at least 1412 A.D., and was succeeded by his son Vira-Vijaya, whom Nuniz calls "Visaya," and who, he says, reigned six years.
This, although confined to coarse articles, may in its class be called perfect, as far as it answers the end for which it is intended; and if an attempt were made to enumerate the quantity of mats, handkerchiefs, sheeting, and a variety of other cloths manufactured for this purpose only in the Provinces of Tondo, Laguna, Batangas, Ilocos, Cagayan, Camarines, Albay, Visaya, etc., immense supplies of each kind would appear, which give occupation to an incalculable number of looms, indistinctly worked by Indians, Chinese, and Sangleyan mestizos, indeed all the classes, in their own humble dwellings, built of canes and thatched with palm leaves, without any apparatus of regular manufacture."
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