work is ordered. If he is a carpenter, he needs the money in order
to buy lumber; if a laundryman, to buy soap. This is not for lack of
confidence in receiving their pay, for the same thing happens with
those who have the best credit, with the cura of the village, and even
with the captain-general himself. It consists, firstly, in the fact
that the majority have no money, because of their dissipation; and
secondly, because they are sure that after they have received a part
of their price, their customer will not go to another house, and that
he will wait for the workman as long as he wishes (which is usually
as long as what he has collected lasts), and that then the customer
will have to take the work in the way in which it is delivered to him."

[128] M. reads, "in the region of the genitals;" and D., "ears."

[129] Delgado says of this: "Let us give thanks to God that our
parents reared us in civilized ways; for if they had not, we would
do the same. But how many blows and lashes we had to take to become
so! And indeed it must be noted that it is not so much because of
rudeness that the Indian scratches himself, or does other things
somewhat more indecent and coarse, as has happened to me at times
when with them; but because of a sort of fear or respect, that so
confuses them that they do not know at times what they are doing, or
even what they are saying." The criticism, like others of San Agustin,
is too sweeping. Delgado has not noticed this among the Visayans,
although he has noted it among the Tagalogs. Because some women are
coarse, coarseness cannot be charged in general upon all the women
of the islands.

[130] D. reads "And as yet they have not gotten over the difficulty
of folding a cloak with the right side in."

[131] M. and D. read "make gestures of wonder."

[132] "I have observed that they are very stupid in making anything
when one tries to give them instructions, but not when one allows them
to work in their own manner. For example, one desires to have the cork
which has slipped down into a bottle drawn. The best thing to say then,
is 'See here, get this cork out without breaking the bottle. Take
care!' Thereupon the Indian goes and fixes it as well as he can. Once
I asked an old woman for some fire to light my cigar. There were many
live coals on the ground remaining from a fire. She took a handful of
earth in her palm, and atop of that placed a coal which she presented
to me. In this way they d