eld of Bagumbayan, adjoining the Luneta, was the place where
political prisoners were shot or garroted, and was the scene of the
author's execution on December 30, 1906. It is situated just outside
and east of the old Walled City (Manila proper), being the location to
which the natives who had occupied the site of Manila moved their town
after having been driven back by the Spaniards--hence the name, which
is a Tagalog compound meaning "new town." This place is now called
Wallace Field, the name Bagumbayan being applied to the driveway
which was known to the Spaniards as the _Paseo de las Aguadas_,
or _de Vidal_, extending from the Luneta to the Bridge of Spain,
just outside the moat that, formerly encircled the Walled City.--TR.

[49] Whom the gods would destroy, they first make mad.--TR.

[50] We have been unable to find any town of this name, but many of
these conditions.--_Author's note_.

San Diego and Santiago are variant forms of the name of the patron
saint of Spain, St. James.--TR.

[51] The "sacred tree" of Malaya, being a species of banyan that begins
life as a vine twining on another tree, which it finally strangles,
using the dead trunk as a support until it is able to stand alone. When
old it often covers a large space with gnarled and twisted trunks
of varied shapes and sizes, thus presenting a weird and grotesque
appearance. This tree was held in reverent awe by the primitive
Filipinos, who believed it to be the abode of the _nono_, or ancestral
ghosts, and is still the object of superstitious beliefs,--TR.

[52] "Petty governor," the chief municipal official, chosen annually
from among their own number, with the approval of the parish priest
and the central government, by the _principalia_, i.e., persons who
owned considerable property or who had previously held some municipal
office. The manner of his selection is thus described by a German
traveler (Jagor) in the Philippines in 1860: "The election is held
in the town hall. The governor or his representative presides, having
on his right the parish priest and on his left a clerk, who also acts
as interpreter. All the cabezas de barangay, the gobernadorcillo, and
those who have formerly occupied the latter position, seat themselves
on benches. First, there are chosen by lot six cabezas de barangay and
six ex-gobernadorcillos as electors, the actual gobernadorcillo being
the thirteenth. The rest leave the hall. After the presiding officer
has read t