[20] The Dominican corporation, at whose instigation Captain-General Valeriano Weyler sent a battery of artillery to Kalamba to destroy the property of tenants who were contesting in the courts the friars’ titles to land there. The author’s family were the largest sufferers.—Tr. [21] A relative of the author, whose body was dragged from the tomb and thrown to the dogs, on the pretext that he had died without receiving final absolution.—Tr. [22] Under the Spanish régime the government paid no attention to education, the schools (!) being under the control of the religious orders and the friar-curates of the towns.—Tr. [23] The cockpits are farmed out annually by the local governments, the terms “contract,” and “contractor,” having now been softened into “license” and “licensee.”—Tr. [24] The “Municipal School for Girls” was founded by the municipality of Manila in 1864.... The institution was in charge of the Sisters of Charity.—Census of the Philippine Islands, Vol. III, p. 615. [25] Now known as Plaza España.—Tr. [26] Patroness of the Dominican Order. She was formally and sumptuously recrowned a queen of the skies in 1907.—Tr. [27] A burlesque on an association of students known as the Milicia Angelica, organized by the Dominicans to strengthen their hold on the people. The name used is significant, “carbineers” being the local revenue officers, notorious in their later days for graft and abuse.—Tr. [28] “Tinamáan ñg lintik!”—a Tagalog exclamation of anger, disappointment, or dismay, regarded as a very strong expression, equivalent to profanity. Literally, “May the lightning strike you!”—Tr. [29] “To lie about the stars is a safe kind of lying.”—Tr. [30] Throughout this chapter the professor uses the familiar tu in addressing the students, thus giving his remarks a contemptuous tone.—Tr. [31] The professor speaks these words in vulgar dialect. [32] To confuse the letters p and f in speaking Spanish was a common error among uneducated Filipinos.—Tr. [33] No cristianos, not Christians, i.e., savages.—Tr. [34] The patron saint of Spain, St. James.—Tr. [35] Houses of bamboo and nipa, such as form the homes of the masses of the natives.—Tr.