[2] The word chocolate is derived from the Mexican word chocolatl. The Mexicans, at the time of the conquest, used cacao-beans as money. The grandees of the Aztec Court ate chocolate made of the ground bean mixed with Indian corn and rocou (vide W. H. Prescottʼs “Hist. of the Conquest of Mexico”).
Chocolate was first used in Spain in 1520; in Italy in 1606; in England in 1657, and in Germany in 1700.
[3] Tiangui, from the Mexican word Tianguez, signifies “small market.”
[4] Spanish, Carroza; Tagálog, Hila or Parágus; Visaya, Cángas or Dagandan.
[5] British patents for papermaking from cocoanut fibre were granted to Newton in 1852, and to Holt and Forster in 1854. A process for making paper from the cocoanut kernel was patented by Draper in 1854.
[6] Vide The Tropical Agriculturist, Colombo, August 2, 1886.
[7] Not to be confounded with Ban͠gá,—Tagálog for a terra-cotta water-pot.
[8] This company was formed in Hong-Kong and incorporated May 16, 1889, with a capital of ₱300,000 divided into 6,000 ₱50 shares, to take over and work the prosperous business of Mr. H. G. Brown. Its success continued under the three yearsʼ able management of Mr. Brown. During that period it paid an average yearly dividend of 8–1/3%, and in 1890 its shares were freely dealt in on the Hong-Kong market at 50% premium. On the retirement of Mr. Brown in March, 1891, the company gradually dwindled down to a complete wreck in 1894. It is still (year 1905) in liquidation.
[9] “Timber and Timber Trees,” by Thomas Laslett (Timber Inspector to the Admiralty). London, 1875.
[10] The same writer also makes the following interesting remark:—“Y tal vez de aquí viene el olor (brea) como empireumatico muy notable de los excrementos en este tiempo!” Vide “Flora de Filipinos,” by Father Manuel Blanco, Vol. I., p. 228. Published in Manila in 4 vols., 1879.