academy or sciences] WARj IT s ORIGIN, INCEPTION, ETC. 155 



No one but a near relative may live within a certain definite distance of a house which is 

 in a state of defense, nor may anyone visit it except by special request. If the inmate has to 

 meet anyone he appoints a trysting place at some spot in the woods and there the visitor, by 

 beating on the butress of a tree or by any other preconcerted signal, announces his presence. 

 The former may be suspicious and may first circle around to examine the footprints before 

 he ventures to approach. 



PEACE 26 



When the opposing parties have evened up their blood accounts and are wearied of ambushes, 

 surprises, loss of relatives, destruction of crops, and continual fight and flight, they agree to 

 make peace either through a friendly chief, or by a formal peacemaking. The desire to make 

 peace is made known by sending to the enemy a work bolo. If it is accepted, it is a sign that 

 the desire is mutual but if it is returned, arbitration must be brought about through a third 

 party, usually a warrior chief or a datu. For this purpose a clear open space, such as a big sand- 

 bar, is appointed and a day fixed. 



On the appointed day the parties arrive in separate bands and take up their positions facing 

 one another, a line being drawn or a long piece of rattan being placed on the ground beyond which 

 no member of either party may pass. Matters are then discussed in the presence of such datus 

 or persons of influence as may have been selected for that purpose and after balancing up blood 

 and other debts, the leaders agree to make the payments at an appointed time and thereby put 

 an end to the feud. As an evidence of their sincerity, they part between them a piece of green 

 rattan. 27 Then beeswax 28 is burned. This is a kind of oath whicb serves to bind them to their 

 contracts. 29 



» Dug-kiU. 



27 1 bave been informed of a very interesting custom said to be observed by the Banuaon group in settling their troubles. It was said that peace 

 is made by hand-to-hand fights in which single pairs of opponents fight until the datus who act as umpires award the victory to one or the other. 

 This is called din-a-iu-an. 



" Td-tung. 



■ I never witnessed a peacemaking and I never had a chance to assist at one of the referred combats of the Banuaon people, mentioned above 



