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The Queneys are of normal stature and delicate in appearance. 
Their hair is black and kinky like that of the Batacs. They traverse 
the dense woods easily and their foot-steps leave no trail. Never 
are they seen first. They always are first to notice those who enter 
their woods, especially if they be strangers whom they watch in am- 
bush, hiding themselves in the trunks of large trees. Seeing the 
strangers at a great distance, they are at once ready to surprise them 
with the blow-gun. Calling out in a mournful and fearful voice 
they ask the following questions: 
“Who are your” “Whence do you,.come?” “What is your 
name?” “What has brought you hither?” etc., ending with 
the important question: “ Have you catarrh or any other sickness?” 
The people being thus questioned answer them, telling their names, 
their objects, and whether or no they have catarrh or any contagious 
disease. In the latter case they are immediately expelled from those 
parts, and are told with warning that in the future they should 
refrain from making another visit. 
We know nothing of their labor save that they cut the bejuco and 
gather the almaciga and beeswax to exchange for cooking untensils, 
bolos, etc. They cultivate the soil for their seed planting to such 
a limited extent that its products scarcely supply their necessities 
even during the first few days of the harvest. They also plant very 
few tubers. 
The Queneys use no arms save the blow-gun, in which use they 
are very skilled. It was from them that the Palawanos learned 
to use this weapon; and according to the Palawanos it is the 
Queneys who make the poisonous substance with which they cover 
the ends of the darts. This is all the present knowledge we have 
of this nomadic tribe and of their conditions and territory which 
has been little explored even by their friends the Palawanos. 
Tue BAtTAcs 
There is another tribe which occupies the mountains of north Lu- 
zon known as the “ Batacs.” This tribe lives in the mountains of 
Babuyan, Tarabanan, Langugan, Caruray, Quinaratan, Buhayan and 
a small part of the barrio of Barbacan; on the west coast they live in 
the mountains of Caruray. 
The Batacs are usually smaller than the other Filipinos. They 
are well formed and agile. The nose is generally of better shape. 
The hair is crisp and curly, less black and less ugly than the negroes 
of the African coast. The Batacs inhabit the interior almost reach- 
