Tagalogs

• “[89] Rojo, in Santa Inés, II, pp. 590-1, says that the Doctrina then being used among the Tagalogs was the same as that written by”

  Doctrina Christiana The first book printed in the Philippines, Manila, 1593.

• “In his view, the resistance to the U.S. occupation was essentially a rebellion by one “tribe,” the Tagalogs, supported by various brigands, military chieftains, religious fanatics, and some profoundly ignorant and misled peasants.”

  Simon & Schuster: Between War and Peace

• “The Tagalogs had their own alphabet, the baybayin, which was similar to those used by people in the South.”

  Archive 2008-09-01

• “You know ... we are just too busy to bother about those Tagalogs and headhunters who live over there where Dewey licked Cervera, and”

  Terry A Tale of the Hill People

• “The Tagalogs could not face the fire with which the Americans met them.”

  Anting-Anting Stories And other Strange Tales of the Filipinos

• “There had been a battle between the American forces and the Tagalogs, and the natives had been driven back.”

  Anting-Anting Stories And other Strange Tales of the Filipinos

• “The stone church of Santa Maria, around which the engagement had been hottest, and far beyond which the native lines had now been driven, had been turned into a hospital for the wounded Tagalogs left by their comrades on the field.”

  Anting-Anting Stories And other Strange Tales of the Filipinos

• “American officers felt sure the Tagalogs had finally retreated.”

  Anting-Anting Stories And other Strange Tales of the Filipinos

• “Then there had come the report of a gun, and then an attack, with scores of shouting Tagalogs swarming down the sides of the ravine.”

  Anting-Anting Stories And other Strange Tales of the Filipinos

• “Perhaps a month of respite from attack had made the sentries careless; perhaps it was only that the Tagalogs had spent the time in gathering strength.”

  Anting-Anting Stories And other Strange Tales of the Filipinos

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