A MOUNTAIN province: BRIDGK BUILT UNDER AMERICAN RUI.E 



Bridges have to be placed at a great height above ordinary water level, as the streams 

 of the Mountain Province are subject to terrific floods. During 191 1 there was a rainfall of 

 38.8 inches in 24 hours. Later there was a rainfall of 31.4 inches in a like period. During 

 the latter storm the wind reached a velocity of 108 miles per hour. 



Their music is supplied by gausas, 

 which are played in a fashion peculiarly 

 their own. Their dances, in which one 

 man and one woman usually participate, 

 are energetic but ungraceful, and are 

 usually individual performances of very 

 brief duration. 



Their rehgion, like that of their neigh- 

 bors to the south, is a form of spirit 

 worship. 



No schools have as yet been estab- 

 lished for their children, but there is rea- 

 son to believe that the latter will prove 

 apt pupils. 



The Kalingas have until very recently 

 been inveterate head-hunters. Crimes of 

 violence are now comparatively rare 

 among them and are for the most part 

 confined to remote and inaccessible por- 

 tions of their territory. While they bit- 

 terly hate their Filipino neighbors in 

 Cagayan and are at times with difficulty 

 restrained from continuing to take ven- 

 geance for past injuries, they are more 



than kindly disposed toward Americans, 

 who can now travel safely through any 

 part of their territory — a condition par- 

 ticularly appreciated by me ; for I cer- 

 tainly diced with death when I first 

 crossed it, with one American and one 

 Filipino companion, in 1906. 



THE KATABAGANES 



The Katabaganes are a wild tribe of 

 Malay origin inhabiting the mountains in 

 Tayabas near the Ambos Camarines 

 boundary. 



But a few individual representatives 

 of this tribe now remain, and practically 

 nothing is known concerning them ex- 

 cept the mere fact that they exist in the 

 region mentioned. No photographs of 

 them have ever been obtained. 



THE MANDAYAS ( SEE PICTURES, PAGES 

 1 170 AND II71) 



The IMandayas, said to number some 

 30,000, inhabit the upper waters of the 



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