[72] "Insanity is the fashionable disease [at Manila], and a great many persons are attacked by it; but it prevails more generally among the women and the religious--the latter most of all, and they are very subject to it. The life which they lead contributes greatly to this: to be always shut up, in a climate so hot, eating scanty and poor food, and much given to study; perhaps also there is some grief at finding themselves banished and shut in so far away [from Spain]. All these causes make the brain grow hot, and madness follows. Nearly all the religious who go to the Philippines arrive there while young.... As for the women, their natural infirmity may, at a certain age, conduce to insanity, with which a great many are stricken." (Le Gentil, Voyage, ii, pp. 130, 131.)--Eds. [73] They have already conducted them to scenes of the last indecency and even bloodshed. See Martini's Hist. The Inquisition has been but little felt in the Philippines of late years. A tribunal existed, but it was merely nominal, and held only "in terrorem." It was not wanted as a political engine; and as a religious one, there was little use for it amongst a people who will believe any thing and every thing. The Grand Inquisitor, during the last 25 years, is a man universally beloved!--the Padre Coro. [74] This is, according to Montero y Vidal (Archipiélago filipino, p. 72), the name applied by Linnæus to the Caryota onusta of Blanco, generally called cabonegro by the Spaniards (see VOL. XVIII, p. 177); but the list of fiber plants in Official Handbook of Philippines applies to that tree (p. 332) the name Caryota urens L. The natives also make various sorts of wine and brandy from the sap of the cocoanut palm (Cocos nucifera); see Delgado's Historia general, pp. 645-648, 664.--Eds. [75] There is an instance (I think in the province of Pampanga) of a negro tribe, who annually pay their tribute--but upon the express condition that no missionaries are to be sent!