Bisayas
Britishplural noun
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Other regiments were sent to the Bisayas and to northern Luzon, until every portion of the archipelago, except the islands of Mindoro and Palawan, contained large forces of American troops.
From A History of the Philippines by David P. Barrows
Cocoa-nut oil.—Cocoa-nut oil is made in the province of Laguna and in Bisayas.
From Recollections of Manilla and the Philippines During 1848, 1849 and 1850 by Robert MacMicking
The Spaniards introduced also the cultivation of tobacco, coffee, and cacao, and perhaps also the native corn of America, the maize, although Pigafetta says they found it already growing in the Bisayas.
From A History of the Philippines by David P. Barrows
He had a fleet of galleys and frigates, and, according to Padre Gaspar de San Augustin, more than fifteen hundred Filipino bowmen from Pangasinan, Cagayan, and the Bisayas accompanied the expedition.
From A History of the Philippines by David P. Barrows
Their missions in Bohol and northern Mindanao made them ambitious to reserve for the ministrations of their society all lands that were conquered and occupied, south of the Bisayas.
From A History of the Philippines by David P. Barrows
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