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These people do not know the meter, the yard, nor any other 
measures. They are equally as ignorant of chronological measurement. 
No one knows his age nor can tell the time or year in which he 
was born. The only mark of time they know is the month Bulan, 
which they reckon from the first night of the new moon, or 
“Tati” until the last phase of the moon. They calculate the 
ages of their children by the harvests which annually occur 
in some other place. For this reason if we should ask a father the 
age of his son, he would begin to count from the time when a cer- 
tain seed planting took place when his child had been born. Should 
the child be more than ten years of age the computation would be 
impossible to make exactly; for these people have no list of their 
consecutive harvests. And thus the only answer is that they are not 
accustomed to count the years. 
THE QUENEYS 
There is another tribe in the south, dwelling in the mountains of 
Lad-da, Ipulot, Buligay, and near Bono-bono. They also inhabit 
the mountains of Culasian on the opposite coast. They are 
known by the Palawanos as Queney, but of them little informa- 
tion is available, acquired from Palawanos and Apurahuanos. Ac- 
cording to them this tribe differs much from them in custom and 
dialect. They do not like to trade with any of the tribes, being 
afraid of catarrh. Should any one of them become afflicted with 
this sickness they are sent away to solitary places. They live apart 
in the mountains. They form neither rancheria nor settlements. 
They have no chief. Their government is patriarchal. They build 
no houses, living in rude huts and the trunks of large trees. They 
clothe themselves with the bark of the antipolo tree similar to the Ba- 
tacs. They eat vermin and wild beasts, the most favored being the 
“pantut.” They are very warlike and arrogant. Although they have 
no chief of their own, there are some who, having received the in- 
fluence of the mountain Palawanos with whom they trade with much 
distrust, recognize the authority of the panlima, but with much in- 
difference, though they accept his commands. Some of the trading 
Palawanos have ventured with merchandise, bolos, hatchets, cooking 
vessels, etc., to enter the mountains inhabited by the Queneys. 
Never do they permit traders to approach their dwelling places, keep- 
ing them at quite a distance. The head of the family will make a 
sanitary inspection of the traders and if they have no catarrh they 
may approach. This inspection is done at a safe distance so that 
