Identifier: inhabitantsofphi00sawy (find matches)
Title: The inhabitants of the Philippines
Year: 1900 (1900s)
Authors: Sawyer, Frederic Henry Read
Subjects: Ethnology -- Philippines Philippines -- Social life and customs
Publisher: New York : Scribner
Contributing Library: University of California Libraries
Digitizing Sponsor: MSN

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le sugar 86-60 84-50 81-20 Glucose. .... 5-40 5-50 6-56 Mineral matter (ash) 1-50 2-56 372 Sand ..... trace •24 1-28 In Cebd the properties are small and are mostly in thehands of Visayas. There are, perhaps, five or six steam-mills, but most of the cane is ground in cattle-mills. Theyfollow the practice of negroes in making sugars direct forexport, but the produce is of a lower quality. An analysisof the Cebu suerar is as follows : Cebu Superior. Cebii Current. Per Cent. Per Cent. Crystallizable sugar .... 8I-IO 71-00 Glucose ...... 7-90 12-50 Mineral matter (ash) 2-i6 2-23 The sugar produced in the other Visayas islands isquite insignificant. Ilo-ilo and Cebu are the principal ports in the Visayasterritory. Besides what they shipped to Manila in 1897,they exported directly to the United States, Great Britain,or other countries, the following: Ilo-ilo, 127,744 tons ofsugar ; 51,300 piculs of Sapan wood ; Cebu, 15.^.14 tons ofsugar; 80,271 bales of hemp ; 46,414 piculs of Copra. And
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THE VIS AY AS: A PROMISING RACE 305 it must be remembered that the Visayas cultivate most ofthe rice, maize, and other food-stuffs which they consume,and also make their own instruments of agriculture. Besidesthis, Ilo-ilo exported to other parts of the Philippines amillion dollars worth of textiles of cotton, silk, and otherfibres, made by the Visayas women in hand-looms. Thewomen in Antique make the finest pina, a beautiful trans-parent texture of the utmost delicacy, woven from thefibres of the leaves of a non-fruiting pine (ananas). Whendoing the finest work they have to keep their doors andwindows closed, for the least draught would break or dis-arrange the delicate filaments. The export from otherports in Visayas of textiles of cotton and silk is consider-able, and, in addition to what they sell, the Visayas womenweave most of the material for their own clothing and forthat of the men. The Visayas also export mat-bags for sugar, which arecalled bayones ; mats for sleeping on, ca

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