[74] Pile (_Canarium commune_--Linn.). Delgado (_ut supra_) says that this was one of the most notable and useful fruits of the islands. It was generally confined to mountainous regions and grew wild. The natives used the fruit and extracted a white pitch from the tree. The fruit has a strong, hard shell. The fruit itself resembles an almond, both in shape and taste, although it is larger. The tree is very high, straight, and wide-spreading. Its leaves are larger than those of the almond-tree. [75] Delgado (_ut supra_) describes the tree (_Cedrela toona_--Roxb.) called _calanta_ in Tagal, and _lanipga_ in Visayan. The tree is fragrant and has wood of a reddish color. It was used for making the hulls of vessels, because of its strength and lightness. The same author describes also the _asana_ (_Pterocarpus indicus_--Willd.) or as it is called in the Visayas, _naga_ or _narra_--as an aromatic tree, of which there are two varieties, male and female. The wood of the male tree is pinkish, while that of the female tree is inclined to white. They both grow to a great size and are used for work requiring large timber. The wood has good durable qualities and is very impervious to water, for which reason it was largely used as supports for the houses. Water in which pieces of the wood were placed, or the water that stood in vessels made of this wood, had a medicinal value in dropsy and other diseases. In the provinces of Albay and Camarines the natives made curiously-shaped drinking vessels from this wood. [76] So many cattle were raised that Father Gaspar de San Agustin, when speaking of Dumangas, says: "In this convent we have a large ranch for the larger cattle, of so many cows that they have at times numbered more than thirty, thousand ... and likewise this ranch contains many fine horses."--_Rizal_. [77] To the flesh of this fowl, called in Tagal _ulikba_, are attributed medicinal virtues.--_Rizal_. [78] These animals now [1890] exist in the islands, but are held in small esteem.--_Rizal_. [79] See chapter on the mammals of the islands, in _Report_ of U. S. Philippine Commission, 1900, iii, pp. 307-312. At its end is the statement that but one species of monkey is known, and one other is reported, to exist in the Philippines; and that "the various other species of monkey which have been assigned to the Philippines by different authors are myths pure and simple." [80] _Camalote_, for _gamalote_, a plant like maize, with a leaf a yard long and an inch wide. This plant grows to a height of two yards and a half, and when green serves for food for horses (Caballero's _Dictionary_, Madrid, 1856).--_Stanley_. At that time the name for _zacate_ (hay).--_Rizal_. [81] In Japanese _fimbari_, larks (Medhurst's _Japanese Vocabulary_).--_Stanley_. [82] _Pogos_, from the Tagal pugo.--_Rizal_.