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house when they celebrate any kind of a cafiao, especially during the 

 canaos called ''pacde" and "palis," because if the people living in the 

 barrio where the cahao pacde is being held go to the country or other 

 places to work, they will have a bad harvest of their crops during one 

 year. If during the cafiao palis the people go to work in their fields 

 they will have no water for their fields for one year; and if they work 

 on their lapog (caingan) 68 it will dry up as there will be no moisture. 



BAUCO 59 



Bauco township has 4 barrios; namely, Guinzadan, Vila, 

 Ibanao, and Bauco. Guinzadan, one of the oldest places in the 

 province according to the manuscript, was formerly called Lili- 

 teg, "but when a big flood came and destroyed the town and 

 cut it in two by a river they changed Liliteg into Guinzadan 

 which means, damaged by water." The Spaniards established 

 a government in this barrio after several campaigns waged 

 against the Igorots of the district. The names of many officials 

 are given. The barrio of Vila was so called "after a certain 

 kind of soil that can be made into pots and pans." The story 

 of its settlement is as follows: 



One time there was a famine in Qiapan and the married couple, 

 Tayapan and Guislan, ran away to Guibasan Mountain and there they 

 built themselves a hut according to the Igorot ways; a short time after 

 Taycapan and Yang-gacao followed them to that place, and they did 

 not go back to Quiapan any more, and so became the forefathers of the 

 people of that place. 



In due time a Spanish government was established in Vila, 

 and after that "the Katipunan controlled this town for a short 

 time" and until the coming of the Americans. The barrio of 



" The caingin method of farming consists in a progressive deforestation, 

 that is, small areas of, say, 1 to 5 hectares are felled and burned, then 

 planted to rice, camotes, maize, yams, beans, etc.; by the end of the second 

 season, however, so much cogon and other grasses and weeds have 

 become established in the comparatively rich new forest soil that their 

 influence upon any successive crop would be very great; usually, therefore, 

 only 2 crops or perhaps in some localities 3, are grown in each cleared 

 space; cogon then takes possession of the clearing and this, being burned 

 every dry season, soon reduces the humus content in the otherwise rich 

 soil (the mineral salts in the ashes readily leaching out in the rainy 

 season). This is a most pernicious and reprehensible practice considering 

 the waste of good land, first, through allowing cogon to enter the clearing, 

 and secondly, through burning the cogon every dry season, thereby 

 killing all forest seedlings and rapidly exhausting the humus. The method 

 has been extensively used in the mountain regions. — Barrett. 



** Bauco is located 18 kilometers east of Cervantes. Its inhabitants 

 are industrious and possess many rice fields and at one time raised many 

 cattle. See Perez, Igorrotes, 191-193. 



