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and he has returned to me!" When their neighbors heard this they all 

 gathered around the place and all were very glad. When all the relatives 

 had gathered together, Quino gave them a complete narrative of his life 

 among the Igorots and he also told them that he was married to an Igorot 

 woman. His relatives were very glad to see Quino again, and they ex- 

 tended to him and his companions a kind welcome and hospitality. While 

 they were in Santa Lucia, an order from the civil governor of the prov- 

 ince of Ilocos Sur was received there, stating that every town must send 

 to Vigan, the capital of said province and the official residence of the civil 

 governor, their representative, to receive the cane of office as capitan of 

 their town. Quino's parents and relatives advised him and his companions 

 to go with them to Vigan; they consented to go, and when they arrived at 

 Vigan they presented themselves to the civil governor there and requested 

 that their rancheria might be organized into some kind of a government 

 and that one of their men might be given authority to look after the 

 community, in order that the name of Buso, by which name the people on 

 the coast call the Igorots, might be changed. The civil governor appointed 

 Quino as maestre de campo, and gave him the cane of authority, a cane 

 mounted with a rooster-shaped gold knob. The rancheria was then formed 

 into a town and was named Besao. Formerly the people called this country 

 the Buso's territory; the word Besao was derived from the word Buso. 

 After Quino had received the cane of command, they all started for home, 

 by way of Candon. When they arrived at Candon they inquired for the 

 relatives of Abay; they found them, and it resulted that Quino was de- 

 scended from Abay and, therefore, was related to the Igorots that captured 

 and cared for him. As a token of relationship, the relations and descend- 

 ants of Abay granted to the Besao people half of the plain that lies between 

 Santa Lucia and Candon, for them to make their homes there in case they 

 wanted to remain there. (A long time ago, it was said that the plain east 

 of Candon belonged to the Besao people.) When the necessary papers were 

 made out for the granting of this plain to them, they returned to their 

 town, Besao. At that time the civil governor had imposed on the people 

 of Besao a yearly tax; to wit, 2 pounds of beeswax and a jar for the whole 

 town. Any time that they took their taxes to Vigan they always returned 

 by way of Candon; there they stopped and collected salt and cotton in 

 payment for the rent of the land granted them by the descendants and 

 relatives of Abay, who were occupying it at the time. After many years 

 had passed, during which time the Besao people had always collected the 

 rent for this land, the people of Candon send word to our old men to come 

 to Candon and bring with them the papers regarding the land in order 

 that they might renew it. Sablay and Mangudang took the papers down 

 to Candon and, upon their arrival there, Sr. Alberto Guirnalda and Alferez 

 Leon's father took the papers from them; they made out new papers and 

 copies of them were given them. They returned home without having 

 anyone look at them to see whether they were right or not; when they 

 returned to Besao they carefully put them away; after a good many years 

 they showed those papers to a sergeant of infantry, stationed at Sagada, 

 a close-by town; great was their surprise when they heard the contents 

 of the paper read to them, as follows: "The Besao people are not in any 

 way to be restrained to pass back and forth to Candon and they are free 

 to make their homes in any place they wish." This was entirely different 

 from what they had imagined. 





