﻿502 The Philippine Journal of Science 1914 



A list of the officials of Besao, covering the period of eighty- 

 eight years follows. The account bears the name of the presi- 

 dente and secretary and the names and marks of the old men 

 consulted. 



ORIGIN AND LIFE OF THE FIRST MAN AND WOMAN THAT SETTLED IN THE BARRIO 

 OF PAYEO, BESAO, LEPANTO, MOUNTAIN PROVINCE 



Angpeo and Dam-may, his wife, both of the rancheria of Tubo, Abra, 

 came to make their home in Banay, where they lived all alone. A girl 

 was born to them, and they named her Siding. They lived on nothing 

 but wild gabe, bananas, and camote-moro,™ as they had no rice nor anything 

 else. When Siding grew up to be a woman, a young man from the ranch- 

 eria of Deydey, subprovince of Bontoc, came to their place and married 

 her. After being married many years, 3 children were born to them, 2 

 boys and a girl; they named the boys Baccangen and Daguillo and the 

 girl, Biana. When these children became men and women, a young man 

 from Tubo, whose name was Bulalacao, and who was somewhat related 

 to Angpeo, the original settler, came there, and after staying there for 

 some time with them married Biana. He told his father-in-law that he 

 would go and bring his sisters over from Tubo and they could marry his 

 two sons; he went after them, and when they arrived (their names were 

 Un-nanay and Licona) Baccangen married Un-nanay and Daguillo married 

 Licona. Bulalacao had 7 children with Biana, 4 boys and 3 girls; 6 chil- 

 dren were born to Baccangen and Un-nanay, 3 boys and 3 girls; 7 children 

 were born to Daguillo and Licona, 3 boys and 4 girls. The children of 

 Bulalacao, Baccangen, and Daguillo, when they became old enough to 

 marry, married among themselves. By that time they had increased to 

 30 persons; then people from other places began to arrive and settle among 

 them. Among the new settlers there was a woman named Caducali; nobody 

 knew where she came from. She brought with her a stalk of rice; she 

 gave this stalk of rice to Cote, the headman of this little community, and 

 said to him, "This is the best food for people, take it and plant it in a 

 seed bed, and when the stalks have grown big enough transplant them 

 into swampy ground." She also said, "You had better move into another 

 place and make the place where you are living into rice land." Therefore, 

 they moved to the uplands and named it Payeo and turned the land from 

 which they moved into payeos (rice paddies). From that time on rice was 

 raised to a great extent." The population had also considerably increased, 

 but owing to so many people coming from other towns it is impossible for 

 us to learn the origin of all of them. 



THE BEGINNING OF ENMITY BETWEEN IGOROTS AND CHRISTIANS 



Langlangquioan, Oaquing, Pasicat, Lobdoy, and Bocasi, of the towns of 

 Besao and Payeo, went down to the coast to find some work in the town 

 of Santa Maria, Ilocos Sur. At the east side of this town they met some 

 hunters from Santa Maria, who were looking for a dog that had strayed 



" The camote moro a yellow-fleshed, red-skinned, sweet potato, grown 

 more or less commonly throughout the Archipelago. — Barrett. 



" The Ifugao myth of the origin of the lowland or irrigated rice is very 

 similar to this. — Beyer. 



