[13] Tuba, fermented juice of cocoa, buri, or nipa palms.
[14] "Lightning blast the stick!"
[15] The Tagalog word is literally "hash."
[16] This story is probably derived from a Spanish version of "The Forty Thieves," but like all the stories of this collection, it is from an oral version of the Tagalog tale.
[17] Filipinos do not kiss like Occidental peoples, but touch the tip of the nose, with sometimes the lips, and inhale the fragrance of the face or hair.
[18] Native houses of the poorer classes are very slightly built, of four or six uprights, with bamboo floors and thatched roof and sides, the whole tied together with rattan. They are very safe in earthquakes.
[19] "Honorable people."
[20] Malapad—a copper piece worth about eighty to the peso or 0.0125 Mexican dollars.
[21] Sec-apat—a real or one eighth of a peso.
[22] Pallok—rice pot of earthenware.