Note 33 — II. Industries at the Time of Discovery and Conquest

That the Filipinos first seen by the Spaniards were not wandering savages, as commonly assumed by later day writers, is shown by the manner in which they built their houses—which very much resembled those of today33,—and fixed their settlements.34 It is from such and other similar facts that Rizal,35 and other writers,36 claimed for the early Filipinos a higher degree of culture than they were given credit for.