The following are the piratical establishments of Sooloo, obtained from the most authentic sources, published as well as verbal.
Scattered through that plain and especially on the banks of the rivers there, live also about one hundred and twenty Moro families, who are under the datos Tumarus, Compao, and Patarandan.
The remnants of the Moros about Davao ask for villages, but it is only pretense, in order that they may continue to live under their old customs, and so that the datos may not lose the few followers left to them.
Being baptized like them, if they wish, they may do it freely without the obstacle ofdatos and panditas.
The exclusion of holding public offices to those who have been datos or panditas and their children.
The principal datos show their greatness by the use of enormous vases, where they keep rare and curious articles.
They pay their tributes to the Moro datos as an annual rent for the lands which they cultivate.
Absolute prohibition to the datos to continue the collection of tribute from their own people and the heathens of other races.
It is advised that the people be encouraged to desert their datos and panditas, and that all the Moros be assembled into one village.
The first chief of the village arrived and the datos received him with great and feigned demonstrations of joy, and consented in all things to what the governor proposed.
The arguments for each side having been heard, after deliberation, the superior dato administers justice, together with the subordinate datos present at the act.
In general, thedatos and their families do not work.
The dato, seated, and with his temples bound with his flaming pinditon and grasping in his right hand the famous quiap, has two subordinate datos sit near him, and then the criminal is immediately brought to his presence.
The powers of these datos within their small areas appear to have been great, and they were treated with utmost respect by the people.
His power over the subordinate datos was small, and in 1748 his brother, Bantilan, usurped his place and was proclaimed sultan of Jolo.
Kabunsuan is supposed to be descended from Mohammed through his Arab father, Ali, and so the datos of Maguindanao to the present day proudly believe that in their veins flows the blood of the Prophet.
As these barangays were grouped into pueblos, or towns, the former datos were appointed captains and gobernadorcillos.
Reinforcements were sent under Don Juan Ronquillo, who, after nearly bringing the datos to submission, abandoned all he had gained.
The task of the Spaniards in controlling the Moro datos continued to be immensely difficult.
He came to Maguindanao with a band of followers, and from him the datos of Maguindanao trace their lineage.
That they do not know their age happens commonly among rude and wild people, wherever they may be; but their age is known very well by their datos and chiefs, in order to assign them their place in the tribute readily.
They say that they are sent by the datos in the stronghold who came from that island of Bassila or Taquima; and that, if permission and pardon were given to them by the pari [i.
In what pertained to the captives, he said that he would surrender those that he had, but that he could not persuade his datos to give up theirs; still he would ask them to give their captives.
He strode out of the office, returning immediately to inform Terry that the Governor was closeted with the two Moro datos whom he had fetched to the capitol by launch.
If the debts of the Datos are not paid off at once they are allowed to stand over for another year, at which distance of time they are very seldom recoverable, good memories being very seldom met with there.
After this severe lesson the Sultan and Datos fled, leaving in the hands of the Spaniards eight bamboo forts and one hundred and thirty pieces of artillery, besides several other warlike stores.
They had datos and other special leaders [mandadores] who attended to the interests of the barangay.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "datos" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
