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the custom of helping one another in planting and gathering. The 
first one among them whose harvest is ready is obliged to notify 
the others. They will come with their respective families to assist 
at the harvest, each one taking to his own dwelling that which he 
has been able to cut. This generous custom very often causes the 
owner of the small harvest to have little palay left for himself, 
though of course there remains to him the right to aid others in 
their harvests, that portion being his which he and his family cut. 
During the harvest time there is no work done but to gather, hull, 
and boil the rice, which is all done by the women. As has been 
said, there is always on hand a large quantity of boiled rice which 
is eaten at any time and chiefly by the men who at this time are 
found lying in their houses day after day and only rise to eat or to ° 
go to the hunt. 
These people are skilled in the hunt of wild boar. They use 
various kinds of traps. The garet is somewhat like a small 
house twelve or more feet in height and is placed in the top of a 
tree which yields a fruit pleasing to the wild boars. There enter 
into this house one or two men with bows and arrows who await the 
approach of the boars which usually come in numbers. Upon the 
arrival of the animals the two men discharge their arrows, and if 
the shots be accurate, the animal will either die almost immediately 
or it may be able to run a short distance, but this happens very 
seldom. The most interesting and peculiar way among them in 
hunting the wild boar and perhaps the most certain and complete 
method is the following: 
All the people of the settlement, including women and children, 
will go to a piace known by them to be the trail of the boar. This 
place is usually some point of mountainous land lying along the sea. 
Certain men who are skilled in shooting the arrow take a position 
well selected, where in all probability the animals will pass. The 
women and children and unoccupied men will spread about in the 
woods, breaking forth into terrible shrieks, some howling and others 
barking like dogs. These shouts and noises bewilder the boars, which 
hasten towards the positions taken by the shooters who await them 
with bow and arrow. Very often they escape the darts and jump 
into the sea. But two bancas having previously been prepared and 
manned, the poor animals cannot escape that way. This hunt usu- 
ally continues for a day and even longer. Afterwards they return 
to their houses with the spoil. Almost in the very completion of the 
hunt they begin to eat the flesh. This manner of hunting is known 
as sagbay. 
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