The prices for unskilled labor are 25 per cent in advance of the farm hand in the visayan islands.
"Cacao Culture in the Philippines"
William S. Lyon
In the visayan Islands they make an oil of a nauseous odor which they call in Manila Caracoa.
"The Medicinal Plants of the Philippines"
T. H. Pardo de Tavera
Amber is frequently gathered in considerable lumps in the vicinity of Samar and the other visayan Islands as well as mother-of-pearl, tortoise-shell, and red and black coral, of the latter kind of which, I have seen shafts as thick as my finger and six or eight feet long.
"The Former Philippines thru Foreign Eyes"
Tomás de Comyn Fedor Jagor Rudolf Ludwig Carl Virchow Charles Wilkes