Note 37 — Letters from Father Mateo Gisbert to the Reverend Fathers and Brothers of Veruela
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Dr. Barrows (Census of Philippines, i, p. 460) restricts the term “Buquidnon” to mountain-dwellers in Luzón and the Visayas, who escaped reduction when those islands were christianized. The term “Buquidnon” means “people of the mountain forest.”