Note 161 — Chapter VII
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Delgado says (p. 318): “This passage is absolutely malicious, so far as the Visayans are concerned; for no Visayan woman of good blood will marry with other than her equal, however poor she be. And although all are of one color, they make great distinctions among themselves.”
“The same thing is recounted by Father Mozo to be the case among the mountain savages.” (Mas, p. 122.)