AN IGORROT PONY 
The natives of Benguet province have many ponies, but due to lack of care they have in many 
cases degenerated to scrubs. 
average native pony of the district. 
particularly striking to an American horseman. 
have perished, as Governor Sande’s 
relation (1576) remarks that the gov- 
ernor on his walks always went afoot, 
‘as there were no horses.’”’ From the 
same source we learn that in the year 
1576 a Chinese called Omacon appeared 
off Pangasinan, being in command of a 
ship that was searching for a pirate 
named Limobon, whom he found there. 
He had the good luck to discover that 
the Spaniards had already met and 
defeated this pirate. 
This photograph, taken at Trinidad, Benguet, shows the 
The position of the rider’s foot in the stirrup’ is 
(Fig. 13.) 
_ The captain had brought with him, 
as present or for trade, thirteen horses, 
which the Spanish chronicler describes 
unflatteringly—‘‘ These beasts are full 
of bad habits like those of Galicia.” 
The above fragmentary records are 
all I have been able to recover concern- 
ing introduction of horses during the 
first years of the Spaniard’s possession 
of the islands. But the trade quickly 
took greater proportions. In 1583 
the general junta at Manila made a 
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