SIXTEENTH ABUSE_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

It is an abuse that after the stipend or sínodo, [102] and large fees

exacted by the father from a poor Indian in regular form, the Indians

generally have to carry the [sick] Indian in a hammock or parilusclas

[103] to the church in order that the father may administer the

sacraments to him. On account of that abuse, and the motion, and

the [effect of the] wind, most of them die; and the man's death is

followed by a looting of his house for the burial fees. This is a

fine way for the fathers to fulfil their duty and exercise charity.

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