entioned is Gabriel Gomez de
Losada, and his book is Escuela de trabaios, in quatro libros dividida:
Primero, del cautiverio mas cruel.... Segundo, Noticias y govierno de
Argel: Tercero, necessidad y conveniencia de la redempcion de Cautivos
Christianos: Quarto, el mejor cautivo rescatado.... (Madrid, 1670).

[159] M. and D. add (though with a slight difference in wording)
"for they will not believe that he who loves danger will perish in it."

Some Indians are fatalists, but not all, says Delgado (p. 310). The
Visayans are generally careful, and watch out for the crocodiles. Those
who have been devoured by those reptiles have always been evil, and
were so punished by God for their sins. Mas says (p. 79), that this
fatalism must have been imported from Asia.

[160] Delgado says (p. 310): "This proceeds from their barbarous
condition, and because the Spaniards commonly deceive them, and
teach them things that are not very good, especially the convict
guachinangos, of whom this country is full. But that they cannot
be persuaded that it is a sin to steal from the religious or from
the Spaniards, I regard as a misapprehension, or at least it is not
common for this to happen, although his Paternity brings forward such
evidence, that one cannot doubt him. For I have seen the contrary in
many villages."

Mas (pp. 80, 81), says: "It is a fact that some Indians have but
little scruple in stealing from Spaniards, for they say that all
that the latter possess is of the Philippines and consequently
theirs. But do not believe that they have any consideration for their
fellow-countrymen. In its proper place we shall see that theft is
the greatest part of the criminality of the islands.... It is to be
noted that they generally rob on a small and rarely on a large scale;
for their ambition is limited to satisfying a vice or to bettering
their present condition, but not in changing it.

"The father provincial of the Augustinian religious, said in his
printed report, in the compilation made concerning the causes of the
insurrection in Ilocos in 1807:

"'The Indians of Ilocos have become highwaymen, like those of the
other provinces. They steal cows, horses, and carabaos from their own
countrymen; and those who are occupied in this trade are ready for
all sorts of evil. It is not surprising that many of these should
have come with the deserters who first rebelled in the mountains
of Piddig, and that others should unite with them wh