FIFTEENTH ABUSE

It is an abuse that, when the provincials go to visit, they make

their so magnificent entrances into the villages at the cost of the

Indians. That is, just as if they were bishops, the bells are rung

for them, and they are accompanied by vast crowds from village to

village; and the people go to receive them, and go to expense and

make feasts, which only cooperate toward their absolute domination

over those natives.

The Philippine Islands, 1493-1898; Volume 50 Explorations by early navigators, descriptions of the islands and their peoples, their history and records of the catholic missions, as related in contemporaneous books and manuscripts, showing the political, economic, commercial and religious conditions of those islands from their earliest relations with European nations to the close of the nineteenth century · 第 72 / 108 题