﻿ix, d, 6 Robertson: The Igorots of Lepanto 499 



said to the brothers of his youngest grandson that they must take their 

 youngest brother to Loma-oan to find him a wife; so they went to Loma-oan 

 and stayed there until their brother was married. Then they returned 

 home bringing with them Langaya, the wife of their younger brother. Up 

 to this time the people in the place now called Besao had increased to 18 

 persons, or 9 families. These were the forefathers of the people now living 

 in Besao, with the exception of a few that came later from other towns. 



When the population of the place now called Besao reached the number 

 of 300, including men, women, and children, they considered themselves 

 strong enough to go down to the coast to buy salt, without being molested. 

 So Maxsil headed a crowd of 50 persons and started for the coast; when 

 they came to the sitio of Locbuban in the confines of Santa Lucia, Ilocos 

 Sur, they met a man and his son. When the man saw the Igorots with 

 their spears and shields he ran away, leaving his son there, a boy about 

 9 years old; the Igorots captured the boy; some of them wanted to cut his 

 head off, but Maxsil said, "Let him live, because I want him for my son 

 (Maxsil being sterile), for this is the place where Abay, the sister of our- 

 grandfather, made her home and married, and who knows that this boy is 

 not related to us." They discontinued their journey to the coast and 

 returned home taking the boy, that had been captured, with them; the 

 boy said that his father's name was Aquino and that his name was Quino. 

 Maxsil brought Quino up in the place now called Besao; the boy Quino 

 acquired the customs of the Igorots and became a very industrious man. 

 Maxsil married Quino to one of his nieces by the name of Dalinsa, and 

 they raised a family of 7 children, 3 boys and 4 girls. By this time Quino 

 became homesick; he thought of his father and mother, and he asked the 

 old men of the community if they would not allow him to go down to the 

 coast to visit his parents. They agreed, and some of the old men accom- 

 panied him; they took with them 70 men, armed with spears and shields 

 in order that they might protect themselves against the people that might 

 want to attack them. When they arrived near the town of Santa Lucia 

 they halted and Quino took with him 8 men as guards to go with him to 

 his father's house. When they arrived at his father's house the door was 

 closed, as it was night already. Quino called out, and his father asked, 

 "Who is there?" Quino answered, "I am Quino, your son!" His father 

 and mother became very angry when they heard this reply, as they thought 

 it certain that their son, Quino, had been captured by tattooed Igorots. 

 The old woman got a torch and the old man armed himself with a club, as 

 he wanted to punish the man outside who claimed to be his son. As soon 

 as they opened the door, they recognized their son; they were convinced 

 that he was the son they had lost years ago, though he was naked and had 

 long hair like a woman, as was the fashion of the Igorots in those days. 

 The old man cried out, "Here is my son that was taken away by Busos,™ 



80 See Worcester [This Journal (1906), 1, 845 and 850], who says that 

 the Igorots of the northeastern mountains of Benguet, the Kayapa district, 

 are called Busaos. This word means enemies, and is not a tribal designa- 

 tion. Scheerer [Pub. P. I. Ethnol. Surv. (1905), 2, pt. 2, 99] says, "The 

 term busol is not so much a tribal name as a hateful designation of the 

 head-hunting, cattle-thieving, and kidnaping Igorot living around and 

 south of the mountain Data in what is sometimes called the Kabusolan 

 or territory of the Busol." See also, Perez, Igorrotes. 



