Before we had traffic and EDSA we had the duyan. After reading Pedro Paterno's memoir "El Pact de Biyak-na-Bato" Benedict ...

Before we had traffic and EDSA we had the duyan.
After reading Pedro Paterno's memoir "El Pact de Biyak-na-Bato" Benedict Anderson asked me a curious question: "did Paterno have hemorrhoids (almoranas)?
I nearly fell off my seat and replied: "I don't know, why do you ask?"
"Why did Paterno travel from Manila to Biyak-na-Bato, Anderson explained, in a hammock instead of going on horseback?"
Apolinario Mabini was carried in a hammock from Batangas to Cavite, arriving in Kawit...