Note 37 — II. Industries at the Time of Discovery and Conquest

Among the other industries at the time of discovery and conquest were: the manufacture of gun-powder; hunting for edible birds’ nests, and exporting them to China; preparing hides, especially of deer, for export to Japan.37 “As they possess many civet cats, although smaller than those of Guinea, they make use of the civet and trade it.38 They also carved the statues of their anitos.”39