-¥ 4g Bish Dapitan, 15 February 1ggg 1 In his ostracism he has little correspondence — « pe mae than humanly” —Roads to ehlized fog i nothing except my freedom, my aay and my ioe pay 1 the Tagalog language — Photo of a Subano—Blumentritt and the Hlongot language — Philological disquisitions — How is Lo- leg? Aaa -« Dapitan, 15 February 1893 Mr. Fernando Blumentritt Leitmer itz, Bohemia, Austria | My very dear Friend,* By the mail of the 8th February I received your letter from the hands of the Politico-Military Commander of the District, 1 did not answer you by the same mail for lack of time. I thank all? of you for having remembered me from that peaceful ity whose remembrance is not erased from my memory. Do ‘et be surprised at my silence, for since the loss of my liberty, . hal eerie of a mistake in the reading of te Punctuation of ihe acters of writing? In the Bisayan language I see tac ¢ ames of more primitive forms than in the Tagalog.-notyij, standing that the Ts conjugation contains in itself nog cay all the ia of the Bisayan but also others. Which of the twp Wwas older? Are both branches of a trunk that has disappeared) That is what I am going to inquire into, because I distrust ‘rea ly the Malay. ; Loleng® must be a little young lady now. I try to visual asa juny * sodehen, (young feay) elie girl that 1 saw a os atubind the coach to bid us goodbye; however, it lad for me to do so, It is natural that she will find Spanish more beautiful and more useful than Tagalog.® The continuous te duplications in certain tenses render our neney ugly; but the Tagalog, when well spoken, can be as valuable as any other Tanguage. It has a great wealth of words to express affection and the activities of everyday life. ‘With greetings to Frau Rosa Blumentritt, Loleng, Frit and Kurt. ial nee Your friend who embraces you, José Rizal te med Dolores. In the PI Bet name for Delores is Enleng (Tagalog version of Lola, Sani), Was tna by her aes eben SSR Many years a Spanish lino at heat, (READ ayy esos ding his tay a Leimeria, ee Lola one ew ish, her and writes eleven econ igus Teena) —462—