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The Philippine Islands, 1493-1898

CHAPTER tenth
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Thirteenth: there will be made here a supply of sandals of _anabo_, which is an herb like hemp, of which rigging is made for ships.

There is also a great deal of cotton.

Fourteenth: linen cloth for shirts, doublets, breeches, hose, and other things wrought of linen, is very common and cheap here, both of domestic and Chinese make.

Fifteenth: in Cagayan there is abundance of wood for all kinds of vessels that may be built; this is true as well of all the other islands; and nearly all, or at any rate the greater part of the Indians, are carpenters and smiths.

Sixteenth: iron for nails, which is brought from China, is plenty, and so cheap that five arrobas (a Chinese quintal) are worth eight or ten reals.


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