Note 125 — San Agustin’s Letter on the Filipinos
Reading edition
57. They are greatly lacking in foresight. Hence the servants and stewards do not advise their master to procure any article until it is completely gone. Therefore when they say that there is no more sugar or no more oil, it is when there is not [oil] enough to whet a knife.125 Consequently, great deficiencies and annoyances are suffered because of this custom.