part of the epilogue probably refers also to him.--TR.

[147]--A celebrated Italian astronomer, member of the Jesuit Order. The Jesuits are still in charge of the Observatory of Manila.-- TR.

[148]--"Our Lady of the Girdle" is the patroness of the Augustinian Order.--TR.

[149]--This image is in the six-million-peso steel church of St. Sebastian in Manila. Something of her early history is thus given by Fray Luis de Jesus in his Historia of the Recollect Order (1681): "A very holy image is revered there under the title of Carmen. Although that image is small in stature, it is a great and perennial spring of prodigies for those who invoke her. Our religious took it from Nueva España (Mexico), and even in that very navigation she was able to make herself known by her miracles .... That most holy image is daily frequented with vows, presents, and novenas, thank-offerings of the many who are daily favored by that queen of the skies."-- Blair and Robertson, The Philippine Islands, Vol. XXI, p. 195.

[150]--The oldest and most conservative newspaper in Manila at the time this work was written.--TR.

[151]--Following closely upon the liberal administration of La Torre, there occurred in the Cavite arsenal in 1872 a mutiny which was construed as an incipient rebellion, and for alleged complicity in it three native priests, Padres Burgos, Gomez, and Zamora, were garroted, while a number of prominent Manilans were deported.--TR.

[152]--What do I see? . . . Wherefore?

[153]--What do you wish? Nothing is in the intellect which has not first passed through the senses; nothing is willed that is not already in the mind.

[154]--Where in the world are we?

[155]--The uprising of Ibarra suppressed by the alferez of the Civil Guard? And now?

[156]--Friend, Plato is dear but truth is dearer ... It's a bad business and a horrible result from these things is to be feared.

[157]--Against him who denies the fundamentals, clubs should be used as arguments.

[158]--Latin prayers. "Agnus Dei Catolis" for "Agnus Dei qui tollis" (John I. 29).

[159]--Woe unto them! Where there's smoke there's fire! Like seeks like; and if Ibarra is hanged, therefore you will be hanged.

[160]--I do not fear death in bed, but upon the mount of Bagumbayan.

[161]--The first part of a Spanish proverb: "Gifts break rocks, and enter without gimlets."

[162]--What is written is evidence! What medicines do not cure, iron cures; what iron does not cure, fire cures.

[163]--In extreme cases, extreme measures.

[164]--Do you wish to keep it also, traitress?

[165]--Go, accursed, into the fire of the kalan.

[166]--The first part of a Spanish proverb: "Cría cuervos y te sacarán los ojos," "Rear crows and they will pick your eyes out."-- TR.

[167]--Believe me, cousin . . . what has happened, has happened; let us give thanks to God that you are not in the Marianas Islands, planting camotes. (It may be observed that here, as in some of his other speeches, Don Primitivo's Latin is rather Philippinized.)--TR.

[168]--The original is in the lingua franca of the Philippine Chinese, a medium of expression sui generis, being, like, Ulysses, "a part of all that he has met," and defying characteristic translation: "No siya ostí gongon; miligen li Antipolo esi! Esi pueli más con tolo; no siya ostí gongong!"--TR.

[169]--"Si esi no hómole y no pataylo, mujé juete-juete!"

[170]--The Spanish battle-cry: "St. James, and charge, Spain!"--TR.

[171]--The "wide rock" that formerly jutted out into the river just below the place where the streams from the Lake of Bay join the Mariquina to form the Pasig proper. This spot was celebrated in the demonology of the primitive Tagalogs and later, after the tutelar devils had been duly exorcised by the Spanish padres, converted into a revenue station. The name is preserved in that of the little barrio on the river bank near Fort McKinley.--TR.

[172]--A Christmas carol: "Christmas night is coming, Christmas night is going."--TR.

[173]--Public Opium-Smoking Room.

[174]--January 2, 1883.--Author's note.