Auau-T 25, 1914] A Fascrcre or Norta Aavsan, FiGs. 2367 
to five inches thick. I have seen half a dozen of them 
fished out of a comparatively small but deep pool. The Ma- 
T nobos stalk around the water until they can grab an eel 
| and throw it on the bank before it can wriggle out of 
N their control and slip into the water again. These eels 
were good eating. 
The water for drinking an cooking had to be carried from 
a spring over a half mile away. The Manobos used the long 
bamboo receptacles for carrying water across their shoulders. 
For laundering and bathing purposes I had to go twice as far 
up to a stream:et in a very den-ely forested and humid gulch 
winding its course down over sindstones. It was in this place, 
while bathing, that I discovered the new large leafed and very 
watery Saurauia succulenta Elm. Only one tree was seen. The 
natives have no need for laundering their elothes, and I have 
never known them to bathe During heavy tropical rains their 
children would go out and enjoy themselves. The pleyfulness 
Tas of the children is well preserved in the youths, and even the 
l old folks are quick to enjoy jokes. 
Here among these Manobos, members in one house 
would talk with members in another house and often 
they would carry on long and strenuous arguments. I 
have seen a few instances where the argument was ter- 
minated by one of the parties snatching his spear or bolo 
and rushing for his opponent. At those moments other 
natives are on hand to prevent a clash. One of these 
; quirrels was between Felix, the head of the most civilized 
| family in the community, and the old wife of the priest. 
l Felix started for his bolo, but his clever wife already had 
it in her hands and kept him from getting it. He then 
ran to a second and third house in search of a spear or 
bolo, but those weapons were carefully guarded by the other 
natives, He was sweating and trembling with anger. I called 
to him and requested him not to do anything criminal, 
and he finally consented to drop the matter out of deference 
to me, but he fiercely denounced the old woman as the 
worst of all the Manobos and who should be killed. 
The wearing apparel of these people is made of coarse 
hemp cloth or cotton gonds. The cotton threads they buy in 
Tubay and the women do the weaving. One end of the frame 
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