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room enough fora pair of pygmies. I have been told that on the 
long ridge extending from the mountain mass toward San Fer- 
nando there is quite a permanent colony of these primitive, 
shy and peaceful people, where they have better houses, larger 
families, some fields, and where they form a kind of community 
from whence the roamers start and to which the tired traveller 
may return. 
The soil along the coast is mainly sandy loam, further in- 
wardly and yet at nearly sea level of the adobe kind. Occa- 
sional ridges that extend to the coast end rather abruptly in a 
limestone formation. "Throughout the forested ridges it is com- 
posed of a red sticky clay. Along the rivers of the foothills 
this red clay has a stony and gravelly subsoil, while on the ridges 
in the higher altitudes it is underlaid with a grayish green sand- 
stone or serpentine shale. Much of this has the appearance of 
small glistening particles similar to mica. The summit out- 
cropping from a close range seems to be composed of great mas- 
ses of bold hard rock, possibly granite, quartz or marble. Be- 
tween these there is a softer rock formation of a dull or reddish 
brown color. 
Magallanes is very cool and humid for a seacoast place, due 
to the closeness of the mountains. Even during the dry season 
there are occasional heavy thunder showers. The rain fall that 
collects on the summit peaks drains off through the furrows 
between them and soon after a heavy shower and after the clouds 
have risen, it can be seen from the coast as parallel silvery white 
streaks as it plunges over the precipitous flanks into the head 
waters of the Pauala river. This fall varies from few hundred to 
a few thousand feet. I have counted as many as a dozen of 
those streaks, some larger and longer than others. On such days 
it is exceedingly dangerous to be well up in the river bed. The 
water collects and flows out surprisingly fast, its roar can be 
heard before the clear sparkling stream gives way to the madly 
rushing and rising muddy water. 
The flora of mount Giting-giting is still very little known. 
The writer went there in March of 1910 and stayed until 
June or until weather becomes unsettled in the Visayan region. 
Most of my collection was done from Magallanes along the Patoo 
and Pauala rivers. Between these two rivers is a ridge following 
closely the western side of the Pauala river and which is heavily 
