Note 77 — Chapter VII
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M. and D. add (though with a slight difference in wording) “for they will not believe that he who loves danger will perish in it.”
Some Indians are fatalists, but not all, says Delgado (p. 310). The Visayans are generally careful, and watch out for the crocodiles. Those who have been devoured by those reptiles have always been evil, and were so punished by God for their sins. Mas says (p. 79), that this fatalism must have been imported from Asia.