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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a gun they were very reluctant to spenda cartridge unless for a dead certainty. If two cartridgesare given to a hunter, he will bring in two deer or pigs,otherwise he will apologise for wasting a cartridge, andexplain how it happened. Their usual way of taking game is to set strong nets ofabaca in the woods in the form of a V, then the beaters anddogs drive the game towards the hunters, who are concealednear the apex, and who kill the deer or wild pigs with theirlances whilst entangled in the nets. I have found the Tagals very satisfactory as domesticservants, although not so hard-working as the Ilocanos.Some of them could clean glass or plate as well as anEnglish butler, and could lay the table for a dinner partyand ornament tastefully with flowers and ferns, folding thenapkins like a Parisian waiter. They could also write out the in^tiu (their orthographyhaving been previously corrected), and serve the dinner andwines in due sequence without requiring any directionsdurinsr the meal.
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( /() /ace p. 229.PAULINO MORILLO. A TAGAL OF LACUNA.BUTLER TO THE AUTHOR. TAGALS: AS DEBTORS 229 Some of them remained in my service the whole time Iwas in the Philippines ; one of them, Paulino Morillo, cameto England with me in charge of my two sons, and after-wards made three voyages to Cuba with me. I gratefullyacknowledge his faithful service. His portrait is appended. I did not find them sufficiently punctual and regular ascooks, nor did they make their purchases in the market toas much advantage as the Chinese cooks, who never bidone against another to raise the price. As clerks and store-keepers I found the Tagals honest,assiduous, and well-behaved. As draughtsmen they werefairly skilful in drawing from hand sketches, and excelledin copying or tracing, but were quite untrustworthy intaking out quantities and computing. Some of them couldwrite beautiful headings, or design ornamental title-pages.I have by me some of their work that could not be donebetter even in Germany or Fr

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