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canao over it and then proceeded on their way. At Masla they found 

 another leg, also one at Lobong; they found out that the people of Tadian 

 and Cayan were in possession of the arms. When the Payeo people 

 saw that all the neighboring towns were their enemies, they turned toward 

 home, and when they went through Sumadel they redeemed the leg they 

 found there with a putic worth about 100 pesos; then they went home. 

 They told the people about the arms and legs and where they were; 

 the old men then decided to send other men after the heads of their 

 people that were killed. Banaoi and Dagdagnen were chosen for this 

 errand; they took with them brass gongs, jars, and gold. When they 

 reached Cagubatan they informed the people there that they had come 

 to exchange gold, putic, and brass gongs for the heads taken by them 

 from their people; the Cagubatan people killed them and then took their 

 gold, jars, and brass gongs. The Payeo people waited many days for 

 the return of Banaoi and Dagdagnen, and when they did not return they 

 sent some of their men to look for them. When these men arrived at 

 Sumadel, they commenced to kill the people there; when they had taken 

 four heads they returned to their town, highly satisfied at being avenged; 

 upon their arrival in their town they held a canao that lasted about 

 four months. Shortly after this, the Sumadel people also started on 

 a head-hunting expedition against the people of Payeo and Besao, but 

 when they were halfway between Sumadel and Besao, a man that was 

 gathering firewood saw them and ran to inform the Payeo and Besao 

 people; immediately these two towns started out to meet the Sumadel 

 expedition, which prevented the Sumadel people from getting into their 

 towns. At the mountain Batay the two parties met and had a fight; 

 the Sumadel people were defeated, and one of their warriors was beheaded 

 by the Payeo and Besao people. When the people of Sumadel and Masla 

 realized that they had no show against these two towns, Payeo and 

 Besao, Quabang and his wife Ecyey decided to go to Vigan ie to make 

 a complaint to Sr. Galbey, T7 the commandant of infantry. Upon arriving 

 there they presented themselves to the commandant of infantry and said 

 to him, "We, husband and wife, have come to ask your protection against 

 the people of Payeo and Besao who are exterminating us, and if you 

 will go and punish them we will give you a piece of gold, in the shape 

 and about the size of a dog." The comandante of infantry went to 

 Payeo with 30 soldiers; upon arriving at a place called Sacaan, a sitio 

 close to Payeo, the old men of Payeo went out to meet them with a 

 white flag, made out of the bark of a tree, and took with them also 

 things to eat, among them some chickens. The comandante made friends 

 with them, and went to Pandangaan and remained there five days in 

 order to observe the people, and when he was satisfied that the Payeo 

 and Besao people were not bad people he told Quaban and his wife 

 that their complaint was false and that they must go and get the 

 gold, the size of a dog, that they had promised to give him. When 

 they brought the gold, the comandante was greatly surprised, because 

 it was not as big as the size of a dog, but it was only as big 1 



™ The capital of Ilocos Sur Province. 



" Possibly the Col. Guillermo Galvey mentioned by Santos, Informe 

 sobre las minas de cobre de las rancherias de Mancayan, Suyuk, Bumucun 

 y Agbao. Manila (1862), 18. 



