"Abaca" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... our Catholic monarch, who is thereby bound to defend them from the invasions of their neighboring enemies. Such is done by the Tagabalooyes in the province of Caraga, who pay their annual feudal due in guinaras and medrinaques (textiles of abaca), [340] in order to be defended from the Moros their neighbors. Likewise the Mangyanes of Mindoro (who number about seven thousand), who pay fifty-two arrobas and a half of wax annually, or 105 tributes; and some of the Manobos in the mountains of ...
— The Philippine Islands, 1493-1898 - Volume 40 of 55 • Francisco Colin
... Filipinas Islands is of two kinds: one, which was formerly used, is made from the palm called gamu, [49] today used only to make cables, stays, and shrouds; the other is called abaca, and is a kind of hemp, which is sowed and reaped like a plant in Piru and Tierra Firme called bihau. Abaca is much stronger than hemp and is used white and unpitched. This abaca costs twenty-four reals per quintal, and is made into rigging in Cabite by the Indian natives, in the sizes and diameter required. These Indian ropemakers are furnished, in repartimiento ...
— The Philippine Islands, 1493-1898: Volume XVIII, 1617-1620 • Various |
