170 Field Museum oe Naturae History — Anth., Voe. XII. 



the members of the tribe residing in the vicinity of Cateel. In the 

 preparation of this paper frequent use has been made of the notes 

 gathered by these two gentlemen. 



When the first white men visited the tribe they found that the 

 ' neighboring Moro were making frequent raids on their villages and 

 were carrying away women and children whom they sold to the Bagobo 

 and other tribes of the Gulf. 1 At the same time it was learned that 

 they, in turn, were slave holders and were eager to purchase captives 

 from the Mohammedan raiders. The great distances traveled by the 

 Moro in their raids make it possible that slaves from distant islands 

 may thus have been introduced into the tribe. Later we shall see that 

 it was difficult for a slave or a descendant of a slave to become a freeman, 

 yet it was by no means impossible, and it is likely that a considerable 

 part of the tribe are descendants of people brought to the district 

 through purchase and capture. Another possible source of outside 

 blood is suggested by well verified stories of castaways on the east coast 

 of Mindanao and adjacent islands. 2 While working with the Mandaya 

 in the region of Mayo bay the writer was frequently told that three 

 times, in the memory of the present inhabitants, strange boats filled 

 with strange people had been driven to their coasts by storms. The 

 informants insisted that these newcomers were not put to death but 

 that such of them as survived were taken into the tribe. These stories 

 are given strong substantiation by the fact that only a few months 

 prior to my visit a boat load of people from the Carolines was driven 

 to the shores of Mayo bay and that their boat, as well as one survivor, 

 was then at the village of Mati. (Plate LXXII). I am indebted to 

 Mr. Henry Hubbel for the following explicit account of these castaways : 

 "One native banca of castaways arrived at Lucatan, N. E. corner of 

 Mayo Bay, Mindanao, on January 2nd, 1909. The banca left the 

 Island of Uluthi for the Island of Yap, two days' journey, on December 

 10th, 1908. They were blown out of their course and never sighted 

 land until January 2nd, twenty-two days after setting sail. There 

 were nine persons aboard, six men, two boys, and one woman, all 

 natives of Yap except one man who was a Visayan from Capiz, Panay, 

 P. I., who settled on the Island of Yap in 1889. These people were 

 nineteen days without food or water except what water could be caught 

 during rain storms. The Visayan, Victor Valenamo, died soon after 



1 Blair and Robertson. The Philippine Islands, Vol. XLIII, p. 203. 



2 Foreman. The Philippine Islands, pp. 257-9. 

 Jagor. Travels in the Philippines. Ch. XX. 



