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Updated: June 24, 2025
Of course I knew in a way, I had seen the 'bejuco' poles, and the rattans, and the whipping bench, and sometimes, of a Sunday, when I was in the village and could not go away, I had heard cries from the tribunal such as white men do not often hear such as I hope no one will ever hear again, even from those places. "Pedro was my Visayan servant, a good worker and a likable fellow in every way.
It was Lucas, but the soldiers were in doubt and questioned each other with a glance. "The alferez said nothing about his having a scar," said the Visayan in a low voice. "Where are you going?" "To order a mass for to-morrow." "Have you not seen Elias?" "I do not know him, señor," replied Lucas. "You dunce! I am not asking if you know him. Nor do we know him. I am asking you if you have seen him."
The Visayas Feeling between Tagálog soldiers and Visayan people grew constantly more bitter, and before many months had passed they fell to killing each other. The highest officers of the "Regional Revolutionary Government of the Visayas" protested vigorously to Aguinaldo, but without result. The situation was entirely beyond his control.
"The 'Gobernadorcillo' who was in office at the time was a man who had no mercy on his people. Negros, with the other islands of the group commonly known as Visayan, forms a province which is under the supervision of a governor who has his headquarters in the island of Cebu, where also the bishop who is the head of the see resides.
Masbate should of course be taken into account in connection with the Visayan Islands, of which it is one.
About twelve of them had managed to get a finger upon his lone carpet-bag while it was being carried down the gang-plank, and each and all of them wanted to get paid for the job. He was in a horrible pickle; couldn't speak a word of Spanish or Visayan.
The little cloud gave a great leap back into its place; the roar dwindled into the voice of Miller, in plaintive, disturbed drawl. 'What the deuce are the niggahs doing? he was saying. "And certainly the behavior of that Visayan crew was worthy of question.
As soon as Juan's father opened the basket the wasps flew over the room; and when the people found the door locked they fought to get out of the windows. After a while Juan opened the door, and when he saw the swollen faces of the people, he cried. "What fine, rich guavas you must have had! They have made you all so fat!". The Sun and the Moon Visayan
At any rate, the young man got well, and since then he has been known to say although this was in the strictest confidence to a very particular person that he should always regard the Visayan woman's prayers before "Our Lady of Pilar" with the profoundest gratitude, because the greatest blessing of his whole life had come to him through this woman's praying for him outside the walls of the old fort.
All day long men and boys, innocent of even an excuse for clothes, hovered about the ship in bancas or dugouts, chattering volubly with each other in Visayan, or begging us in broken Spanish to throw down coins that they might exhibit their natatorial accomplishments, and, when we finally yielded, diving with yells of delight for the bits of silver, seeming quite as much pleased, however, with chocolates wrapped in tin-foil as they had been with the money, and uttering shrill cries that sounded profanely like "Dam'me dam'me," to attract our attention.
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