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yas.—Quarrels sometimes result from these drinking bouts, but 
not oftener, I think, than they occur among more highly cul- 
tured people in other parts of the world. The custom of carrying 
weapons on all oceasions where others than relatives are present 
has a deterrent effect, yet there are occasions where a recourse 
to daggers (Mandaya) or to bolos (Manobo and Mangguangan) 
terminates an argument which can not be settled. by wild shouts 
and frantic gestures. I have witnessed a few instances of this. 
Once, in the Upper Manorigao (southeastern Mindanao), in the 
house of Bagani?S Andaiyup, an argument began and every man 
jumped for his dagger. I retired from my place on the floor to 
the vicinity of my gun and, on seeing one man stab another in 
the leg with his dagger, I slipped down the notched pole. A 
few minutes later the host upbraided me for retreating, saying 
that it was only a little matter between relatives, and it was 
settled amicably. 
On another occasion, in Compostela, I was doing the honors 
of my house to Bagani Tomando of the Upper Caraga. At the 
same time there was present a relative of a person in Manlubuan 
(Middle Cateel River, eastern Mindanao), who had been attacked 
by the Mandayas from Manorigao (a river near Caraga, eastern 
Mindanao), assisted by Tomando and others. As Padodo (for 
this was the name of the other Mandaya) waxed merry after 
several potations, he began to sing and made reference to the 
futile attack by Tomando and his companions on his relatives 
of Manlubuan. Tomando answered in song, and so the thing 
kept up until Tomando lost his patience and whipping out the 
ever-present dagger, would have struck his adversary down 
had I not seized his arm and besought him to desist. Padodo, 
however, was up and ready, but as Tomando’s two brothers 
suddenly appeared on the scene, Padodo retreated and at once 
left the house and the town. 
Mangguangan brawls and killings—Drunken brawls and 
killings are more frequent among the Mangguangan than among 
the other peoples of the Agusan Valley. The Mangguangan, 
unfortunately for him, becomes quarrelsome in his cups, espe- 
cially with members of the Mandaya and Manobo tribes for 
whom he bears no love. Pulling out his bolo he settles the 
argument with a deep slash and brings down on his head the 
blood reprisals that have exterminated his fellow tribesmen by 
* Bagani is a title conferred on one who has a certain number of human 
lives to his credit and who is, accordingly, under the special influence and 
protection of a war god. 
