Comments on: Tea + Sulu = Miag-ao Church

By: » Luna’s lonely sentinel of the sea | Langyaw: Sojourns and Off-the-Beaten Path Travels

Wed, 20 Jul 2011 00:31:30 +0000

[...] the descendants of the ancestors that this structure protected from the Pintados from the Visayas, Moro marauders looking for slaves, left it under the merciless elements while the area is continuously being quarried for its pebbles [...]

By: » San Jose, Occidental Mindoro in one day | Langyaw: Sojourns and Off-the-Beaten Path Travels

Tue, 15 Mar 2011 02:51:14 +0000

[...] to those found in Cebu. Mindoro was, unfortunately, one of those islands hardly devastated by the Muslim slave raids in the middle of the 18th to the middle of the 19th centuries. In Barangay Mapaya, at the middle of [...]

By: It’s all a blur as I’m shuttling to and fro | langyaw

It’s all a blur as I’m shuttling to and fro | langyaw — Mon, 23 Aug 2010 03:17:01 +0000

[...] I’m a true blue Cebuano. I actually enjoyed my Loboc River cruise. The visita iglesia and fortification visits in Bohol was so exciting that I consider it my highlight in that [...]

By: Ria

Ria — Tue, 16 Mar 2010 18:22:51 +0000

omg omg. thanks! (i didnt expect you would reply )
i realized awhile ago that some of the content coincided with what I was reading. turns out, we have a common book! The Sulu Zone by Warren. it really helped.

By: estan

estan — Tue, 16 Mar 2010 16:59:41 +0000

@ria, check out this link: http://simbahan.net/references/

The ones by Warren and Javellana (Fortress of Empire) are my references.

By: Ria

Ria — Tue, 16 Mar 2010 12:02:57 +0000

hello. i would just like to seek help. can you please tell me the title of the four books which you made reference for this?
(actually, i really just need a proof that the british traded firearms to the ppl of sulu for sea products. and then later on trade these for chinese tea. you mentioned this, right?)

By: Arnold Carl’s 5 must visit Cebu heritage sites | langyaw

Arnold Carl’s 5 must visit Cebu heritage sites | langyaw — Thu, 03 Dec 2009 05:57:16 +0000

[...] Spanish colonial period marked with the beautiful 19th century neoclassic church and convent, some ruins of watchtowers along its coast as well as houses; to the American period marked with houses of antillan style [...]

By: Cebu’s lonely sentinels of the sea | langyaw

Cebu’s lonely sentinels of the sea | langyaw — Mon, 21 Sep 2009 11:08:07 +0000

[...] of blood, predation and the Cebuano’s attempt to defend themselves at the onslaught of Muslim slave raiders during the middle of the 17th to the middle of the 19th centuries. The spectacular Spanish colonial [...]

By: An enjoyable ride around north Cebu | langyaw

An enjoyable ride around north Cebu | langyaw — Sat, 30 May 2009 07:38:12 +0000

[...] structure used to stand above this hill in Tapilon overlooking the sea keeping watch of invading muslim slave raiders that ravaged the Philippine archipelago, and especially Cebu, during the late 18th and early 19th [...]

By: Nathaniel

Nathaniel — Mon, 23 Feb 2009 05:42:12 +0000

Now the childhood saying from the elderly whenever we play beyond the sunset, “sige mo, dakpan dyud mo sa Moros”, makes sense.

Estan: wonderful research and field work. Saludo ko bai.