[6] Rizal’s “Boyhood Story,” “The First Reading Lesson.” [↑]
[8] Azotea: the roof of the porch of a Philippine house, usually at the rear. [↑]
[9] His “Boyhood Story,” p. 4. [↑]
[10] Sinamay: a native cloth woven of abaca (hemp) and sometimes of the fiber that is called “pineapple.” [↑]
[11] Mabolo: the date-plum, a reddish fruit, looking something like an apple, but turnip-shaped. [↑]
[12] The Jesuits were not one of the four orders that figure so conspicuously in this story. They had been banished from the Philippines as from Spain in 1767, and all their insular property, valued at 3,320,000 pesos, was confiscated by the Government. In 1852 another royal decree allowed them to return, but they never regained their former prominence and power. [↑]
[14] Craig, p. 83; Derbyshire, p. xvi; Fernández, p. 226. [↑]