y do not work,
they annually give the master five chicubites of rice.

_Value of the slaves_. The ayueys are worth among these people two gold
taes of Labin sian, the equivalent of twelve pesos. The tumaranpoques
are worth the same sum. The tumatabans are worth one tae, or six pesos.

The ayuey women, like their husbands, work in the houses of chiefs. The
tumaranpoque women, if they have children, serve half of the month in
spinning and weaving cotton, which their masters supply; and during
the other half of the month they work for themselves. The tumataban
women spin only one hank of cotton each month for their masters,
who furnish to them the cotton in the boll. Only the ayueys receive
food and clothing from their masters; to the others the masters
give nothing. When these slaves die the masters take away all their
property, except from the tomatabans, as we have said above. Those
whom these natives have sold as slaves to the Spaniards are mostly
the ayueys.

The rules which they observe for punishing any one so severely as to
enslave him are as follows: for murder, adultery, and theft; and for
insulting any woman of rank, or taking away her robe in public and
leaving her naked, or causing her to flee or defend herself so that
it falls off, which is considered a great offense.

_Thieves_. If a thief commit a great robbery, he and all his relatives
(or at least his nearest kin) are fined. If they are unable to pay the
fine, they are made slaves. This law applies to all classes, and even
to the chiefs themselves; accordingly, if a chief commit any crime,
even against one of his own slaves or timaguas, he is fined in the
same manner. But they are not reduced to slavery for lack of means to
pay the fine; as, if they were not chiefs, they would be slaves. In
case of a small theft, the punishment falls upon the thief alone,
and not on his relatives.

_In time of famine._ When there is a famine the poor, who have not
the means of sustenance, in order not to perish, go to the rich--and
almost always they seek their relatives and surrender themselves to
them as slaves--in order to be fed.

_Another kind of slavery._ There is another kind of lordship [slavery:
_crossed out in MS_.], which was first introduced by a man whom they
call Sidumaguer--which, they say, occurred more than two thousand
years ago. Because some men broke a barangay belonging to him--in
Languiguey, his native village, situated in the island of Bantay