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as a reward for guiding the Spanish soldiers into the mountains. 11 

 Tajonera encouraged the people to plant rice, tobacco, and other 

 products. The first taxes were paid in wax and baskets, but 

 "when Angaki began to grow rich, the people began to pay taxes 

 at the rate of 12 centavos each, and in 1887 when Mr. Ramon 

 Francia 13 was the governor in Cervantes, we paid 50 centavos 

 taxes each, until the revolt between the Spaniards and the Fi- 

 lipinos occurred, and later we paid a contribution of 40 centavos 

 each." The customs as related by the old men of the barrio 

 of Angaki are as follows: 



These were the customs of our forefathers when one of them wanted 

 to get married. 14 



When a young man sees a young woman to whom he wants to get mar- 

 ried, he tells it to a married man whom he asks to go and speak to the 

 parents of the woman. And if he goes and finds out that they both have 

 the same affection, the woman's parents tell him the day on which the 

 young man must bring a load of fuel to the house of his father-in-law; 

 and then each of them must begin to help the other to do some kind of 

 work. And if it takes them a year to do this, the parents of the man and 

 woman make an agreement as to which one of them shall build a house 

 for the married couple. And when they have straightened out their agree- 

 ment they tell it to some old man a who must then make an offering of the 

 canao that will unite them. 



12 For a description of Abra, now a part of Ilocos Sur Province, see 

 Memoria descriptiva de la provincia de Abra, n. p., n. d. ; Perez, Igorrotes, 

 271-285; and Buzeta y Bravo, Diccionario geografico estadistico, historico 

 de las Islas Filipinas. Jose C. de la Pena, Madrid (1850-51), 1. The 

 official government guides for 1848-50 show Ramon Tajonera as coman- 

 dante politico militar. 



13 Ramon Francia y Parajua, according to the Guia Oficial de Filipinas 

 for 1897, was comandante politico militar at Cervantes in 1897. No earlier 

 mention of him is found. One peso (100 centavos) Philippine currency 

 equals 50 cents United States currency. The peso of Spanish times was 

 worth considerably less. 



" See also, post, other descriptions of marriage customs. Cf. with the 

 accounts of these documents the old customs of Philippine peoples in Blair 

 and Robertson, ut supra: 3, 61 (Relation by Legazpi, Cebu, July 7, 1569) ; 

 3, 166 (Conquest of Luzon, 1572) ; 5, 119, 153-161 (Loarca, Relation, ca. 

 1580) ; 7, 181-184 (Plasencia, Customs of the Tagalogs, 1589) ; 16, 124-126 

 (Morga, Sucesos, 1609); 34, 320 (1580); 40, 88-91 (Colin, Labor evange- 

 lica, 1663) ; 40, 167-171 (Combes, Historia, 1667) ; 43, 123, 124 (Martinez 

 de Zuniga, Historia, 1803). See also Jenks, Pub. P. I. Ethnol. Sun: (1905), 

 1, 202, 203. 



" Alonso Martin Quirante in Expeditions to the mines of the Igorotes. 

 written in 1624 (Blair and Robertson, ut supra, 20, 274) says: "Their 

 sages or philosophers are the oldest men or women, whom they respect 

 and obey in an extraordinary manner, and most when they are occupied 

 in the said feasts; for they say that then and even ordinarily those persons 

 are wont to talk with the devil, who keeps them blinded." 



