The Philippine Islands, 1493-1898, Volume 26 of 55, 1636 / 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

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That he should lose in one moment—

That artilleryman—his slave-girl and his life.

He who thought to pay from his profits—tributes;

And he who in hanging dogs saw—fetters;

And he who caused the mulatto women to bear—daughters:

All these simpletons

Must come to a halt;

Because the devil will carry off—

Tributes, fetters, and daughters.[9]

For so great malice, there is no—justice;