So we were caught, this afternoon, and taken before the Datto Hakkut.
It seems like an almost dastardly thing to do, sir, but the death of the datto stopped the fighting inside.
The line of bayonets swept forward, but news of the death of the datto had already reached his would-be defenders.
The Datto Hakkut, however, has been doing business here on Mindanao since before the Spaniards left, and my opinion is that he will do business as long as he lives.
The datto has us all in a bunch and he'll hang to us until he has wiped us out.
Instantly the datto turned and shouted something to the younger man with him.
I'm sorry the datto didn't live a little longer," murmured Sergeant Hal to his chum.
There were many friendly natives, and some of them had slyly brought word to the post of the location of Datto Hakkut and his forces at the last report.
At that time this country was not ruled by any foreign power, but each tribe was governed by its own datto or chief.
Datto Somacuel was one of the seven chiefs who, coming from Borneo many years before the Spaniards conquered these islands, settled the Island of Panay.
After a few days the ape, considering the way well prepared for his plans, called upon the datto and said: "My master requests you to give him your daughter in marriage.
The Datto Julcainim, with seventy armed Moros from Sulu, landed in Basilan Island to recover tribute from the natives, but was sent back by a Spanish gunboat.
The datto acting as judge takes as his fee one-eighth of the fine he imposes.
These were the Datto Mausalaya, another man named Masumbalan, and three women.
A datto is known by the richness of his apparel and by using gold buttons, and especially by always carrying a handkerchief in his hand.
The Datto Ayunan, who resides in the same neighbourhood, also came over to the Spaniards, and learned to understand and speak Spanish very fairly.
He who insults a datto is condemned to death, unless he can pay 15 taels of gold, but he becomes a slave for life.
He is exhorting a blood-stained old datto and his wives and followers to abandon their human sacrifices, exhibiting to them the image of the crucified Redeemer, whose followers he urges them to become.
The famousDatto Utto, of the Rio Grande, is said to have stripped a runaway slave naked and to have tied him to a tree, leaving him to be stung to death by the mosquitos or devoured piecemeal by ants.
They are organised in a strict feudal system, the headman ordatto of each village is in fact the only free man of his clan.
The war-minister of a sultan is called the Datto Realao.
The little man instantly recalled to the commander the wedding of Datto Dicky of Jolo.
As Datto Dicky is said to have been just two feet and three inches in height the little children of the American governor doubtless found the structure much to their liking and well adapted to their needs.
Every datto had numbers of lantaka or brass cannon and was well skilled in the use of them.
At a fair in Zamboanga, Datto Dicky was about to take unto himself a wife, the little lady being as diminutive as her prospective husband.
Datto Ali whose continual depredations and defiance made Cottabato the centre of that unabated conflict for the Americans described in Chapter xxix.
Their friendship lasted on the one side so long as danger could thereby be averted from the other, and a certain Datto Teng-teng attacked the British garrison one night at Balambangan and slaughtered all but six of the troops (vide pp.
Baldwin set out from Malábang Camp in May, attacked and captured the cottas of the Datto of Binadáyan and the Sultan of Bayan on Lake Lanao, and gained a signal victory over them with a loss of seven killed and 44 wounded.
But up to July, 1905, Datto Ali had been able to elude capture, although General Wood personally conducted operations against him a year before, establishing his headquarters at Cabacsalan, near the Lake Ligusan.
This latter sent a priest, Pandita Kalibaudang, and Datto Andig to sue for peace and cajole the General with the fairest promises.
Following in the wake of those who had successfully checked the Mahometans in the previous spring, he took the chief command in person in the beginning of January, 1887, to force a recantation of Datto Utto's utterances.
The aged Sultan very reluctantly responded to the call, and, accompanied by his Prime Minister, Datto Ducalat, and a large retinue, the royal party came in about 250 armed vintas.
It has to do with Capitan Isidro's curious experiences as a hostage in the home of Datto Amay Bancurong, at Lake Lanao.
The datto had three wives, but one of them was rather old.
We stopped at Uato ten days, there borrowing $500 "Mex" from Datto Bancurong.
The datto sentenced him to be beheaded, and seemed disappointed when we would not stay to see this operation.
The favorite weapons of the datto were elaborately inlaid with the ivory cut from the tusks of the wild boar.
To become a datto it is only necessary to possess a few slaves, wives, and carabao.
We were obliged to leave Captain Isidro Rillas with the datto for security.
General Rufino was obliged to leave me as a hostage at Uato at the home of Datto Bancurong.
A minor datto averages about four slaves, a dozen head of cattle, and two wives.
When I was left with Datto Bancurong, security for the five hundred pesos that Rufino had been forced to borrow, I was treated with considerable hospitality.
The datto had offered protection for the "medico," and, as a fee, a bottle of pure gold.
They returned the next day several thousand strong, and would have utterly annihilated us (for we were worn by fever and starvation) had it not been for Datto Bandia's advice, which finally discouraged the attack.
An investigation ensued which disclosed the fact that the attacking parties belonged to the tribes of Datto Amay Grar.
How curious of the Americans not to know that a woman should be taken to a datto, not a datto to a woman.
The datto was accompanied by his wife, for notwithstanding he is a Mohammedan, he has but one, and the wife of his Philippine foster-brother, besides a large retinue of followers and slaves.
Verily, Datto Mandi and the presidente had been right, Americans were unlike the Spaniards, and Zamboanga had never experienced so peaceful a year in all her history.
But it is primarily to Datto Mandi and the presidente that the people of Zamboanga should be grateful.
They discussed us freely to our very faces, and kept changing their positions to get a better view of us, staring with amazement when the old datto was brought up and introduced.
That morning Datto Mandi, the Rajah Muda or heir to the Sultanate of Mindanao, came on board to pay his respects to the Powers-that-Be.
In speaking of the cable, one of the Signal Corps officers told the Rajah Muda that it was a gift of half a million pesos from the United States to the Philippine Islands, at which the datto was obviously impressed.
Then great fear came into the hearts of the people, for the fierce Datto was the terror of the eastern seas, and all the southern islands were reported captured.
Hundreds of years ago messengers came hurrying from the south of Luzon with the news that the great Datto Bungtao, with many ships and men, was on his way to the island to burn the villages and carry the people away into slavery.
And those who ask why it flashes and glows in this way are told the story of the silver shower that saved the Pasig villages from the Moro Datto Bungtao.
Hastily they called a council and finally decided to send a messenger out to the Moro chief with all the gold and things of value they possessed, thinking thus to satisfy the fierce Datto and save their villages from harm.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "datto" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
