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the datu, each of whom, with the reservation of the homage due to his suzerain, 

 became proprietor of the lands conquered and wealth plundered by his retainers. 

 The tao marahay, or " good men,'" that is, the free warriors, accompanied them on 

 their predatory expeditions, while the sacope, or lack-land class, were reduced to a 

 state of serfdom. Like the Norman knights they issued forth in search of adven- 

 ture, to do battle against the infidel in the name of the true faith, or to acquire 

 renown by carrying off women, slaves, and treasure. In the early years of the 



Fig. 113. — Ifugao Indian. 



sixteenth century they were beginning to overrun the Philippine Archipelago, 

 and but for the intervention of the Spaniards there can be no doubt that the 

 Tagals would at present be Mohammedans. Piracy in these waters was not 

 entirely destroyed till the latter half of the present century by the Spanish occu- 

 pation of the Mindanao seaboard and the Sulu Archipelago. 



The pagan populations, often confounded by the Spaniards under the general 

 name of Igorrotes, still form a considerable section of the inhabitants both in Luzon 

 and Mindanao. The Igorrotes, properly so called, dwell east of the Ilocos, in the 

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