“Filipinos of both sexes and all ages are gamblers” (says Mr Henry Savage Landor.; in his account of his journey through the Philippine Islands). “Not far from the market-place of Cuyo wo find the cock-pit—an institution to bo found in nearly every Christian village and town in the Archipelago. On a Sunday these cock-pits are well patronised, and much betting is indulged in both by cock owners and their friends or admirers. There are few families who do not possess one or more fighting cocks, and on holidays you see fighting birds being taken about, resting placidly on their owner’s hand and forearm. They—both owner and oock—have, however, a wicked look in their eyes—the brutal look of men and beasts thirsting for blood,”
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New Zealand Times, Volume LXXVII, Issue 5372, 3 September 1904, Page 9
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