THE PHILIPPINE 



Journal of Science 



D. General Biology, Ethnology 



AND ANTHROPOLOGY 



ToL. VI FEBRFAKY. 1911 Xo. 1 



THE BURIAL MOUNDS OF CAMIGUIN ISLAND. 



By ilERTON L. MiLLEK. 

 {From the Dirisioii of Eilinolofiy, Bureau of Scioncr. Mnuilu, P. I. 



The Island of Camiguiu lies north of the northern end of Luzon, about 

 55 kilometers distant from Aparri. It is approximately 20 kilometers in 

 extreme length and 13 kilometers in extreme width. 



At the time of my arrival on the island, April 17, 1910, there was a 

 population of 90 souls. During my stay of six weeks 30 people arrived 

 from Dalupiri and other neighboring islands with the intention of remain- 

 ing on Camiguin. Tradition says that there was formerly on the island 

 a population of several thousand, but that the greater part of the people 

 died of cholera between twenty and thirty years ago. 



Camiguin is almost entirely covered with forests. If there formerly 

 was a numerous population on it, the clearings which would have been 

 made have become reforested, unless there is some open country of which 

 T did not learn. 



The people now living on the island are Ilocanos with the exception of 

 two or three individuals who have come from the Batanes Islands. Some 

 of the Ilocanos were born on Camiguin and some came from the Ilocos 

 Provinces or from the Cagayan Valley. I can not say what the pro- 

 portion is of native bom to immigrants. All the people live within a 

 radius of from 6 to 8 kilometers of the usual landing place at Cadadalman 

 and all are but a short distance' from the beach in the harbor of Pio 

 Quinto. A few live at Cadadalman. more at Cadadagatan. a small 



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