Note 6 — INSURRECTIONS BY FILIPINOS IN THE SEVENTEENTH CENTURY (continued 2)
Reading edition
Spanish, zarzas y espinas; probably meaning branches of thorny shrubs, and trees. The defense of pointed stakes driven into the ground (VOL. XXVII, p. 275) is called in Tagal suyac. Cf. description of this in Ling Roth’s Natives of Sarawak (London, 1896), i, p. 444, and ii, pp. 110–115. ↑