Bisayas

To the two provinces of Zebu and Panay only is given the name Bisayas, but to all this group of islands taken together is given the name

The Philippine Islands, 1493-1898 — Volume 18 of 55 1617-1620 Explorations by Early Navigators, Descriptions of the Islands and Their Peoples, Their History and Records of the Catholic Missions, as Related in Contemporaneous Books and Manuscripts, Showing the Political, Economic, Commercial and Religious Conditions of Those Islands from Their Earliest Relations with European Nations to the Close of the Nineteenth Century Edward Gaylord Bourne 1884

Malay root, although some few Malay words have been engrafted on it, probably from the circumstance of that language being made use of in the province of Bisayas, which is the only place in the islands where it is spoken.

Recollections of Manilla and the Philippines During 1848, 1849 and 1850 Robert MacMicking

L.ntana L.ntana camara L. Baho-baho (Bisayas), Kantutal

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-- Cocoa-nut oil is made in the province of Laguna and in Bisayas.

Recollections of Manilla and the Philippines During 1848, 1849 and 1850 Robert MacMicking

In Bisayas the quality of the leaf is so inferior in strength and appearance to that produced in Luzon, that the Government have not thought it worth while to appropriate the produce of the islands to themselves by a monopoly.

Recollections of Manilla and the Philippines During 1848, 1849 and 1850 Robert MacMicking

Amongst these (Bisayas) there are also some negroes, the ancient inhabitants of the island of which they had taken possession before the Bisayas.

Negritos of Zambales William Allan Reed

They are more barbarous and savage than the Bisayas and other Filipinos, for they do not, like them, have houses and fixed settlements.

Negritos of Zambales William Allan Reed

It is brought from the vicinity of the volcanoes in Bisayas: the best is said to come from Leyte, which is worth about one and a quarter dollar per pecul.

Recollections of Manilla and the Philippines During 1848, 1849 and 1850 Robert MacMicking

Albay, Camarines, Samar, Bisayas, and some other districts, are those from which it principally comes.

Recollections of Manilla and the Philippines During 1848, 1849 and 1850 Robert MacMicking

That coming from the Laguna is of the best quality, and generally sells for a good deal more than the Bisayas oil, which does not give so good a light, and has a worse smell than the other.

Recollections of Manilla and the Philippines During 1848, 1849 and 1850 Robert MacMicking