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own age and the other a young woman. Others were not allowed 
to have more, because of the American government. This priest 
as weil as two other families of this small colony retained 
Manmanua slaves. It was my custom to send someone to Cabad- 
baran every Saturday or Sunday with a bundle of dry plants. 
This old priest was always on hand for this light work, and I 
proposed to pay him thirty centavos upon his return of each 
trip. He would not have it that way and asked me if I 
could give him an order on Sr. Atega for one third that amount 
in money for each trip. I learned afterwards that all he 
wanted was enough cash to make him drunk in town. On 
clear warm days the men loll around the cool edge of the 
rostrum floor like carcasas. The women and children do most 
of the field as well as all the house work. Why should 
the men work? 
The Christian Filipinos across the Minusuang river are also 
poor, have families, and besides making clearings for their food 
plants they set out every year a little in hemp and coconuts 
^- permanently. These Filipinos who are mostly  Boholanes 
have heavy road taxes and other government obligations to 
perform. They have left their overpopulated home islands and 
have started with thrift to make their home in a new 
place. It is interesting to pass through this pioneering 
section of the country. Everywhere one finds small shack-like 
homes and work begun in clearings, and during this dry 
Season a great deal of buraing was done. At noon and to- 
ward the evening one can hear the bugle-like call for the 
laborers to come in on the larger and older plantations. 
This call sounds very much like the whistle of a small 
steamer far away. The Boholanes break the end out of a 
* large marine shell and use the conch for a trumpet. Quite 
i often the natives of Bohol would come in their vintas or 
e sailboats and peddle their goods, such as cloth and the like. 
The peddlers run all over the country, and once or twice they 
dropped in at Bayabas. The Manobos are eager to buy their 
cloth, but lacked the money. Just once I banked them with 
a little cash for which they solemnly promised to work. This 
trust on my part was a distinct mistake. 
Again, the Manobos have a habit of roving to where 
there is something to eat. On a few occasions part of the 
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