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the northern pueblo this trail follows the Patoo river, crosses the 
divide at 2000 feet altitude and from Espafia to the southern 
town it follows the coast. Romblon is the post-office for all 
the residents ,on the island and all the government officials 
of this subprovince reside in that town. Most all imports and 
exports come and go by way of Romblon. At times the 
provincial government maintains a small steamboat on the route 
between Capiz and Romblon, taking in all the pueblos and larger 
settlements on Sibuyan and Tablas islands. Between Romblon 
and Magallanes there are always native sail boats to be had 
during the calm season. These can carry quite a lot of cargo, 
including such as ripsawed lumber and occasionally as many 
as six earabaos or baeas find standing room in the hull of the 
Visayan “Vinta.” In one of those I returned with my entire 
collection on a bright moonlight night upon a perfectly smooth 
sea, forged ahead by a steady heavy breeze. 
There are no American residents on the island. "The bulk 
of the property is owned by Spaniards and a few Chinese mes- 
tizos, half breeds between the Chinese and Philippinos. The 
largest town is San Fernando, located at the southern point. 
Cajidioean on the eastern side and Magallanes on the northern 
are pueblos. Lubug and Ipil on the north and España on the 
west are very small settlements. The natives of Magallanes at 
least, are the poorest and most indolent of Christian Philippinos 
that I have ever seen. They seem to enjoy the laxative period 
of freedom. In the mountains are some of the Mindoro abor- 
igines called Mangyans. They are roamers of the woods, 
occasionally coming into the valleys to barter with the Christian 
Philippino woodsmen for matches, salt, bits of cloth and the like. 
During my two to three months stay I failed to see a single mem- 
ber of those primitive folks although frequently early in the morn- 
ing I have come across their small crude huts with a little fire still 
smoldering nearby. These huts when they stand out alone are 
conical or circular as an Indian wigwam. When they are built 
against bowlders along the river they are irregular in shape. The 
frame is of small stems of undershrubs, tied together with bajuco 
or rattan. The outside is overlaid with palm leaves and occasion- 
ally one finds in the tent a bunch of leaves which no doubt served 
as comforts to the occupants. These primitive houses are 
scarcely wider than a yard and twice as high, affording barely 
