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stopped only for a drink, and then Daliwaya appeared. Upon her 

 arrival, one of the headmen gravely informed her that the people 

 wished to adopt four Americans, but that only one was then present. 

 The spirit bade the writer to arise from the mat, where he was lying, 

 and after stroking his head for a time, said, "You wish to make this 

 American an Itneg, 1 but before you can do anything, the spirits must 

 approve and give him a name. I will give him a name now, and then 

 to-morrow all the people must say if they wish to give him another 

 name and make him Ipogau. 2 His name shall be Agonan, for that is 

 the name of the spirit who knows many languages." Again she stroked 

 the writer's head, and then taking a large porcelain platter, she filled it 

 with basi, and together we drank the liquor, alternately, a swallow at 

 a time. 



After her departure, an Alzado 3 came and danced with high knee 

 action, meantime saying, she was there to make some one ill, and that 

 she would do so unless the American gave her a cloth for her clout 

 when she returned the following day. 



The next visitor was Sanadan, the spirit who owns and guards the 

 deer and wild pig. Up to this time the people had been mildly 

 interested in the arrivals, but when this important being appeared, the 

 men at once became alert ; they told him of their troubles in the hunts, 

 of the scarcity of deer, and urged him to send more of them to Mt. 

 Posoey, where they were accustomed to hunt. He offered much good 

 advice concerning the methods of hunting, but refused to take any 

 action regarding the game on the nearby mountain, for, he said, the 

 spirit Dapwanay who owns Posoey was watching the game there. Just 

 before he departed, he called to the headmen, "I am very rich and 

 very bold. I am not afraid to go anywhere. I can become the sunset 

 sky. I am going to Asbinan in Kalaskigan to have him make me a 

 shoe of gold. To-morrow you must not use any of the things you 

 have had out-of-doors, but you may make use of them when you 

 build the taltalabong." 



The last spirit to come that night was Ablalansa who keeps guard 

 over the sons of Kadaklan. He paused only for a drink and to tell the 

 people that America was very near to the place, where the big birds 

 live who eat people. 



1 The name by which the Tinguian designate their own people. 



2 The spirits' name for the Tinguian. 



3 The term Alzado is applied to the wilder head-hunting groups north and 

 east of Abra. 



