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Dalaguete

1911 Encyclopedia Britannica

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a town of the province of Cebu, island of Cebu, Philippine Islands, at the mouth of the TapOn river on the E. coast, 50 m. S.S.W. of Cebu, the capital. The town has a healthy climate, cool during November, December, January and February, and hot during the rest of the year. The inhabitants grow hemp, Indian corn, coffee, sibucao, cacao, cocoanuts (for copra) and sugar, weave rough fabrics and manufacture tuba (a kind of wine used as a stimulant), clay pots and jars, salt and soap. There is some fishing here. The language is Ceb6-Visayan.

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Chisholm, Hugh, General Editor. Entry for 'Dalaguete'. 1911 Encyclopedia Britanica. https://www.studylight.org/​encyclopedias/​eng/​bri/​d/dalaguete.html. 1910.
 
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