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highest and abrupt at the northern end. From the Surigao 
coast its side view appears in the shape of a nose, and 
in the Visayan dialect Hilong-hilong means “like a nose." 
Mount Mabaho has also a reason for its name. Long time ago, 
it is said, that two English or German prospectors undertook ex- 
ploration work on that mountain. After not returning for some 
time, the townsmen or Visayan went out in search for them. 
They finally came upon their camping place and found their 
dead bodies—the result of tropical fever. The air was heavy 
with vile odor, and the Visayan present frequently express- 
ed this condition in their native dialect ''Mabaho." Ever 
since the mountain was called by that putrid name. Mount 
Urdaneta the Manobos call Masay, but I could not obtain 
its meaning, unless it expresses a wet cold and windy place. 
Besides the crude trail leading in from Cabadbaran to 
Bayabas there is a trail leading through the dense forested 
flats along the base of the mountains from the upper 
Minusuang River to Tubay on the coast. Again, besides the 
ridge trail from Bayabas to Mount Urdaneta, there is an old 
alpine cross trail intersecting the ridge between Duros and 
Cawilanan Peaks at 3500 feet altitude or at the Manmanua 
settlement. To the east of this point the trail leads partly 
along the upper portion of the Catangan Creek and then clear 
out to the Minusuang head waters. To the west this very 
obscure trail descends into the Dalahion gorge and follows 
its stream out into the valley towards the Tubay River. The 
lower cross trail is bad enough, but the upper one is prac- 
tically unrecognizable, although it represents a possible moun- 
tain passage. i 
The officials at Cabadbaran exerted quite an influence 
upon the Manobos, and on my behalf twice sent the cap- 
tain of the police out to Bayabas for inspection. In the few 
months of my stay, they built several houses and opened a 
broad road through the dense forests from Bayabas to the 
Minusuang River or into the beginning of the valley. This 
latter piece of work had a most civilizing and taming 
effect on them, for they all realized that they were placed 
at the hands of the municipal authorities. For a long time 
they stubbornely refused to open this road and a threat 
for arrest had to be given them. Again, the presidente gave 
