Note 32 — San Agustin’s Letter on the Filipinos
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8. This disposition and influence makes them fickle, malicious, untrustworthy, dull, and lazy;32 fond of traveling by river, sea, and lake; fond of fishing, and ichthyophagous33—that is, they sustain themselves best on fish; they have little courage, on account of their cold nature, and are not disposed to work.34 Besides this they have other qualities and vices, of which I do not know the cause, and I do not believe that I can easily know them.35 I shall mention some of them.36