Sunday, January 27, 2008

Pinay Scandal



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"The inhabitants of the Philippines have a great love for strong drink; even the young girls occasionally get intoxicated."

"The inhabitants of Mariveles have not a very good reputation. The place is only visited by ships which run in there in bad weather, when
their idle crews spend the time in drinking and gambling. Some of
the young girls were of striking beauty and of quite a light color;
often being in reality of mixed race, though they passed as of pure
Tagal blood. This is a circumstance I have observed in many seaports, and in the neighborhood of Manila; but, in the districts which are almost entirely unvisited by the Spaniards, the natives are much darker and of purer race." - Fedor Jagor, 1820