FEBRUARY 26, 1912] A FascircLE oF Patawan Fics 1369 
In the depressions and in other moist more fertile soil are 
secondary woods. The cogon formation extends well up over 
| the timberless ridges into the foothills. This is very plainly 
^ = shown by Mr. John Whithead’s plate between pages 140 
and 141 of his Exploration of Mount Kina Balu, North Borneo. 
Furthermore, the whole picture represents a good bird's eye 
view from the sea looking westward. Brook’s Point is located 
to the right of his sketch. To the foreground is a rugged coastal 
range terminated at its northern end by a sharp point called 
Addison peak. The upper two thirds of this range is densely 
wooded, the peak itself is much higher and forms a characteristie 
landmark to navigators. The Lara river empties into the sea 
several miles north of Brooks Point, flows closely around the 
northern base of Addison peak and seems to wind in behind and 
around several other ridges before its head waters are reached 
on the north or northeastern slopes of mount Mantalingajan or 
Kalamutan as Whithead calls it. This is the highest mountain 
on Palawan and is eharted to be 6843 feet high. It is densely 
forested clear to the summit and from the eastern side above the 
Addison range and it does not seem perpendicular. The northern, 
eastern and western slopes are comparatively short and with 
a good high mountain pitch. To the south is a long prominent 
ridge with minor spurs. The chief of these terminates very 
abruptly or nearly perpendicularly into what is called the gray- 
ish white Pagoda cliffs. The whole mountain is situated pretty 
well to the rear of the coastal range and I suspect is nearer to 
the China than to the Sulu sea. Just northward of it the moun- 
tains are broken up into a series of irregular ranges which further 
to the north soon collect themselves into a massive and higher 
mountain or two named Landargun and Gantung respectively. 
Most of the natives in southern Palawan are Tagbanuas 
or Dusuns according to Mr. Whithead. They are especially 
numerous on the plains back of Brooks Point and in the foot- 
E. hills of the mountains to the north of Addison peak and mount 
| Mantalingajan. They do not live on the coast, although fre- 
| quently they come to the sea for fish, salt water and for the 
purpose of bartering with the Chinese and more recently with 
the Moros or Sulus. They are a harmless shy people, living 
in small light material huts arranged in smaller or larger groups. 
From any one of these settlements they have trails leading 
