VENTURELLO] MANNERS AND CUSTOMS OF TAGBANUAS 543 
flung away. The poison does not hinder their being eaten by the 
Batacs and mountaineer Palawanos, who with a knife or bolo cut 
away from the body the part injured by the dart. 
WEIGHTS AND MEASURES USED BY THE PALAWANOS AND 
APURAHUANOS 
The steelyard consists of a piece of wood the size of a cane 
about three feet in length, some being longer, others shorter. This 
is suspended from a string which is fastened a fourth of the dis- 
tance from the end of the yard. 
The rod is marked with points and lines which indicate the 
weight. The points indicate the half cate and the long strokes the 
cate. This weight, which is known among them as timbangan 
or chinantanan, is provided with a counterweight of stone, iron, 
or lead the same as ours. Each cate weighs ten pounds. Ten cates 
are equivalent to a chinantan and two chinantans are equivalent to 
a pico, which is equivalent to 200 libras according to our weight. 
The timbangan is used to measure the almaciga and the bejuco. 
This scale varies in size. The smaller one is used very frequently 
to measure the beeswax, and this unit of weight is equivalent to 
five pounds and sometimes seven. 
A cavan contains twenty-five gantas which gantas are much larger 
than ours. In place of a bag they use the bayong, which is similar 
to petate. The liquid measures are the tabo a cup made out of 
cocoanut shell, the gori and the bottle. The bottle is used to 
measure the honey which they sell to the Christians. In times of 
scarcity a bottle is worth twenty centavos. 
For unbroken land which is to be sold for planting the unit 
of measure is the braza de bolo, whose operation is as follows: 
A man places himself in a standing position. On his right hand 
is hanging a bolo; in his left hand is a cafia bojo, whose end 
touches the earth at his extreme left. The right hand being raised 
until the bolo is in a vertical position, marks the distance where the 
point of the bolo touches the cafia bojo. A piece of land 20 “brazas 
de bolo” square is equivalent among the Palawanos to ten gantas of 
palay, payable in advance. Another method of buying land is to 
pay four cavans of palay for land which has been broken and pre- 
pared and which may contain 30 gantas of seed, the Tagbanua ganta 
being larger than ours. This is the account of the purchaser for 
all the expenses incurred, including the work from the planting of 
seed until the harvesi. 
