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Palawanos is found more faithfulness than in the other tribes. The 
customs among the Palawanos themselves vary. The inhabitants of 
the rancherias where the Moros reside and from whom they receive 
their influence follow and adopt the customs and usages of the Moros, 
thus eating no pork and receiving the Moro baptism known as Islam ; 
while those inhabiting the interior and the mountains adopt the cus- 
toms of the Tagbanuas with a slight difference. The Palawanos pay 
a kind of tribute to the family of the ruling datto at Bono-bono, 
which usually consists of rice, wax, etc., in quantities determined 
by the ruling datto and the respective dattos of the rancheria. 
This tribe knows only two gods, whose names are the same as 
those of the Apurahuanos. Their ideas of the life after death are 
also the same. The little bird, saguay-saguay, the messenger of 
Diwata, is known to them as sapued. The singing of this bird, 
the peculiar sound of the lizard, and the sneezing of a person have 
the same significance. 
The Palawanos who are Islamites and who live in the southern 
part of the rancherias inhabited by Moros, being influenced by these, 
observe the fiestas of the Moros; while those living in the interior 
observe those of the Apurahuanos. But they always observe two 
days in common, the first and fifteenth of the moon. There is only 
one annual fiesta which they hold with much solemnity and 
which is known as Ronsay. This celebration takes place on the 
beach or some other spot made known beforehand. It is observed 
one or two days before the soil is broken for the seed, which usually 
occurs in December. The object of this fiesta is to thank Diwata 
for the good harvest and the favors received during the now 
ending year; and to ask him to give to them his protection and 
favors during the coming year. The observance is the same as 
that of the Apurahuanos, save that among the Palawanos it is per- 
mitted to take part in all the games and the dances. 
The Islamite Palawanos have their children baptized by the Moro 
priest who is known as Imam. Those who dwell in the mountains 
observe the same ceremonies as the Apurahuanos. 
Those who are not influenced by the Moros are almost identical 
in their manners and customs of the Apurahuanos. Their manner 
of receiving strangers and persons of importance is very much the 
same, with this slight difference, that in courtesy they are somewhat 
rude and gruff, and they lack in hospitality. 
The Palawanos of the extreme south are very unsociable and not 
communicative with strangers, owing no doubt to their peculiar 
