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The Philippine Islands, 1493-1898

CHAPTER tenth
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Ninth: there is great abundance of fish, as healthful as meat.

Tenth: the wine needed will be brought there in great plenty, being palm wine, and very good.

And from China can be brought what is called _manderin_, which is very good and cheap, and is much drunk in the islands.

Eleventh: there will be a supply of jars of biscuit and flour.

Twelfth: kidney beans, even better than Spanish lentils, are common in the islands.


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