Note 79 — San Agustin’s Letter on the Filipinos

So great is the ease and tenacity with which they believe the greatest nonsense, if this is to the discredit of the Spaniards or against them, that it would be a long undertaking to recount some of it. I have deemed it advisable to mention only two [instances] of it of which I heard79 and of which I was a witness, so that the rest can be inferred from them.