hich they made. The
Tagalogs called such true slaves sanguiguilir, and the Visayans halon.

Other slaves were called namamahay, for they did not serve their
master in all capacities, nor inside his house; but in their own
houses, and outside that of their masters. They were bound, however,
to obey their master's summons either to serve in his house when he
had honored guests, or for the erection of his house and its repair,
and in the seasons of sowing and harvest. They [had also to respond]
to act as his rowers when he went out in his boat, and on other like
occasions, in which they were obliged to serve their master without
any pay.

126. Among both kinds of slaves, sanguiguilir and namamahay, it happens
that there are some who are whole slaves, some who are half slaves,
and some one-fourth part slave. For if the father or the mother were
free, and had an only son he was half free and half slave. If they had
more than one child, these were so divided that the first followed
the condition of the father, whether free or slave, and the second
that of the mother. So did it happen with successive pairs. But if
there were an odd number of children, the last was half free and half
slave. Those who descended from them, if they were children of a free
father or mother, were slaves only in the fourth part, as they were the
children of a free father or mother, and of one half slave. Sometimes,
because it happened that two people had agreed to marry and the man
had no wealth for the dowry--or rather, nothing with which to buy his
wife--he became her slave. In such case the children were divided in
the said manner, and the first, third, and fifth, and the remaining
ones in the same way were slaves, inasmuch as they belonged to the
father, who was also a slave of the mother--and not only slaves to her,
but also to her brothers and sisters and relatives, in case of her
death and the division of her property. On the contrary the second,
fourth, and others in the same way, were according to their custom
free, inasmuch as they belonged to their mother who was free; and
they were masters and rulers over their own father and brothers and
sisters. The same thing happened in the case of interest, a thing
of so great importance among them that, as already remarked, the
father would not pardon the debt and interest even to the son, nor
the son the father, even in case of necessity, until the one had made
a slave of the other for it. Conseq