Note 156 — San Agustin’s Letter on the Filipinos
Reading edition
71. They are so cowardly that they fear any Indian who becomes a bully among them—so much that, if they only see him with a poor knife, they fear him so greatly that he can do whatever he wishes. All the village together will not be bold enough to arrest him, for they say that he is posong, which is the same as “bold.” I have had many examples of this.156