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"Cebu" Quotes from Famous Books

... with neighboring countries and even with distant ones is proven by the ships from Siam, laden with gold and slaves, that Magellan found in Cebu. These ships paid certain duties to the King of the island. In the same year, 1521, the survivors of Magellan's expedition met the son of the Rajah of Luzon, who, as captain-general of the Sultan of Borneo and admiral of his fleet, had conquered ...

— The Indolence of the Filipino • Jose Rizal

... Castilians by crying as a signal "Castilla, Castilla!" He relates the finding of one of the three men at the island of Vizaya. This man relates that after a year's captivity his master had taken him to Cebu, where he learned from the natives that they had sold to the Chinese the eight companions of Magalhaes who were left on that island. The natives of Cebu "are idolaters, who at certain times sacrifice human beings to their god, whom they call Amito, and offer him to eat and to drink. They ...

— The Philippine Islands, 1493-1803, Volume II, 1521-1569 • Emma Helen Blair

... itself are two fathers, who attend to the village of Mandaui and to the many Indians in the said city [of Cebu]. They are Fathers ...

— The Philippine Islands, 1493-1898, Volume XXXVI, 1649-1666 • Various

Words linked to "Cebu" : Republic of the Philippines, city, urban center, Philippine Islands, island