[96] _Esparavel_ is a round fishing-net, which is jerked along by the fisher through rivers and shallow places. _Barredera_ is a net of which the meshes are closer and tighter than those of common nets, so that the smallest fish may not escape it. [97] Cf. methods of fishing of North American Indians, _Jesuit Relations_, vi, pp. 309-311, liv, pp. 131, 306-307. [98] A species of fish in the Mediterranean, about three pulgadas [inches] long. Its color is silver, lightly specked with black. [99] The fish now called _lawlaw_ is the dry, salted sardine. The author evidently alludes to the _tawilis_ of Batangas, or to the _dilis_, which is still smaller, and is used as a staple by the natives.--_Rizal_. For information regarding the fishes of the Philippines, see Delgado (_ut supra_), book v, part iv, pp. 909-943; _Gazetteer of the Philippine Islands_ (_ut supra_), pp. 171-172; and (with description of methods of fishing) _Report_ of U. S. Philippine Commission, 1900, iii, pp. 319-324. [100] Paho. A species of very small mango from one and one-half to five centimeters in its longer diameter. It has a soft pit, and exhales a strong pitchy odor.--_Rizal_. [101] A Spanish word signifying a cryptogamous plant; perhaps referring to some species of mushroom. [102] In Tagal this is kasubha. It comes from the Sanskrit _kasumbha_, or Malay _kasumba_ (Pardo de Tavera's _El Sanscrito en la lengua tagalog_).--_Rizal_. This plant is the safflower or bastard saffron (_Certhamus tinctorius_); its flowers are used in making a red dye. [103] Not a tree, but a climber. The plants are cultivated by training them about some canes planted in the middle of certain little channels which serve to convey irrigation to the plant twice each day. A plantation of betel--or ikmo, as the Tagals call it--much resembles a German hop-garden.--_Rizal_. [104] This fruit is not that of the betel or _buyo_, but of the _bonga_ (Tagal _bunga_), or areca palm.--_Rizal_. [105] Not quicklime, but well slaked lime.--_Rizal_. Rizal misprints _un poco de cal viva_ for _vn poluc de cal viua_. [106] The original word is _marcada_. Rizal is probably correct in regarding it as a misprint for _mascada_, chewed. [107] It is not clear who call these caskets by that name. I imagine it to be the Spanish name, properly spelt _buxeta_. The king of Calicut's betel box is called _buxen_ in the Barcelona MS. of the Malabar coasts.--_Stanley_. [108] See _Vol_. IV, p. 222, note 31; also Delgado (_ut supra_), pp. 667-669. Delgado says that _bonga_ signifies fruit. [109] Tagal, _tuko_.--_Rizal_. [110] This word in the original is _visitandolas_; Rizal makes it _irritandolas_ (shaking or irritating them), but there are not sufficient grounds for the change.