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dig up the bones, wrap them in the clothes formerly belonging 

 to the dead person, and, together with the beads, baskets, and 

 other things which were his, to place them in some rocky cave 

 or on a cliff. 



At Abra de Hog the dead are buried at some place near by, 

 the grave is surrounded with a good fence, and a few days later 

 the people move away from the place. The clothes and every- 

 thing else belonging to the dead person are buried with him; 

 he is not put on a cliff nor in a cave. 



At Aluyan the people say that after a death and before they 

 abandon the place where they have lived, they burn the house 

 because there are many bu-kau, malignant spirits, near by. In 

 all the trees and paths near where the person died they put 

 lassos so that the spirits can not pass. 



About Lake Nauhan the dead are buried a long distance from 

 the place where the people live. They do not abandon their 

 houses after a death. For the burial they select a place which 

 is well drained so that when the rains are heavy it will not 

 become muddy. 



In the Bako region, when a person dies, the people at once 

 abandon the place even though the crop is about ready to be 

 gathered, and they do not return for perhaps five years. 



The Mangyans at Aluyan say that if one of their number 

 falls ill of small-pox they all leave him; even the mother deserts 

 the sick person, although the father sometimes remains. If they 

 hear of small-pox among the Christians in town, they move to 

 some distant place and send word to the Christian people not 

 to come to them. 



RELATIONS WITH CHRISTIAN FILIPINOS. 



With the exception of the people of the interior, all the Mang- 

 yans of Mindoro seem to be on friendly terms with the Christian 

 Filipinos. From the association between the two peoples^ the 

 latter appear to be by far the greater gainers. The Christian 

 people of Bulalakao, according to the statement of some of their 

 own number, practically live on the labor of the Mangyans. The 

 latter do not often bring to town their products, but the people 

 of the towns go out to the Mangyan settlements, taking with 

 them cloth, bolos, beads, and other cheap merchandise which the 

 Mangyan wants and which they exchange for maize, camotes, 

 bananas, and other food products. Some of the Mangyans are 

 also employed by the townspeople in making clearings. They 

 are rarely, if ever, paid in cash for such services. Rice, if they 



