The population among the Bisayan islands was quite surprisingly small, considering its present proportions.
He was a grand minister of the gospel, and knew the Bisayan tongue very well.
For rice there are no less than sixty-five words in Bisayan; for bamboo, twenty.
Up to date about two hundred Bisayan Indians have died, most of them from diseases.
In Tagalog and Bisayan the letter “n” is dropped and the word is pronounced “be-lat′-ic.”
