i6o Menage Expedition to the Philippines 



perfectly preserved, yet I am sorry to say it was somewhat torn 

 by bullets, being shot through both the head and body. 



They gave us in return a collection of two hundred and fifty 

 species of shells, mostly sea shells. We do not set a high value 

 on this collection as most of the species are common, but it will 

 help a good deal when it comes to the identification of the shells 

 we have already sent home. Our exchange was chiefly for arms, 

 implements, ornaments, articles of dress, etc., of savage tribes, 

 largely those of the interior of Mindanao. We also obtained four 

 wooden idols, from the same region. A good many of the articles 

 in question are not to be found except in this collection of the 

 Jesuits. We are to receive, also, a collection of land shells, and to 

 take such specimens as we desire from their set of Philippine 

 birds' eggs. We did not have time to complete the exchange, 

 nor to pack the material. Everything is securel) stored however 

 and will be sent home when we reach Manila. 



In addition to the foregoing we got a fair set of birds, small 

 but good, including a single specimen of a sunbird which is en- 

 tirely new unless obtained by Dr. Platen at the time of his visit, 

 and this is, I think, improbable. We secured a fine lot of Mang- 

 yan material, including a partial skeleton with a good skull of a 

 man, and a woman's skull in excellent preservation. These were 

 obtained in deserted houses and may be of some ethnologic inter- 

 est. 



We found two very rough images cut out of soft stone by the 

 Mangyans. They were in the woods, near the shore of Nanjan 

 Lake. One was erect, sitting on a large boulder. The other 

 was lying on the ground with its head broken off. What they 

 were made for we could not learn. We appropriated them. We 

 send a bow and poisoned arrow. The latter should be treated 

 with respect. 



Two large python skins were sent in the last shipment of ma- 

 terial. One is dry, the other in one of the barrels with timaran 

 skins. The skins of a cow and a calf timaran were utterly ruined, 

 owing to natives getting too ambitious, and killing three timaran 

 in one day. We threw the cow skin away, saving only the skele- 

 ton. The calf skin we sent, as the taxidermist may want to use 

 some of the hair from it, and it took up little room. 



The other skins are strictly first-class in every way, and much 

 more valuable than the dry skins we sent before. This shipment 



