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finger in the shape of a dog; the comandante insisted that he wanted 

 the gold they had promised him and that they must find enough to 

 enable them to make it the size of a puppy. They got together all 

 the gold that the people of Masla and Sumadel had, and made it in 

 the shape that the Spaniard told them, but still they had not enough 

 eold. Then Quabang asked the Payeo people, as a favor to him, to 

 give him some gold and. thereby their towns would make friends and 

 forgive the wrongs that they had done them. The Payeo people gave 

 Quabang two pairs of earrings, but still there was not enough; then 

 Quabang gave to the Spaniard his unmarried sister, b\ the name of 

 Dayeman, whom the Spaniard took away with him, and who has never 

 returned to her home. Before the Spaniard went away, he appointed 

 Paguien maestre de campo for Payeo and ordered him to Vigan to 

 receive his instructions from the authorities there. About a year after 

 they decided to go to Vigan, but they thought that Buluan should go 

 to Vigan and take the place of Paguien as maestre de campo, because 

 Paguien was a small man and thin and it would be a disgrace to them,, 

 while Buluang was a big man — fat and big headed — and his eyes were 

 like the eyes of a carabao. They did so, and when they arrived at 

 Vigan Buluan appeared there as maestre de campo. The authorities 

 then told them that if possible they should quit their head-hunting. From 

 that time on, Buluan was known as maestre de campo. Upon their arrival 

 home, Buluan made a trip to the neighboring towns and invited them 

 to make peace with each other; peace was established with all the 

 towns that he visited. Later on he made another trip to Tanobong, 

 taking with him Olbanes, Macon, Cangoy, Pacodan, and Logsing, with 

 the intention of visiting the towns in the eastern country, but on their 

 way they were met by Busos from Mainit who killed Buluan, the maestre 

 de campo, Olbanes, Macon, and Cangoy. Pacdogan and Logsing made 

 their escape and ran back to Payeo for help; all the men of the community 

 started at once in pursuit. When they arrived at the place the Mainit 

 Busos had gone, but they found the bodies of their companions and took 

 them back to Payeo. About a half a year after, a comandante politico 

 militar arrived at Cayan, and the Payeo people complained to him of 

 the murder of Buluan and his companions; the comandante sent soldiers 

 to Mainit, but the soldiers found nobody there, so they burned up all the 

 houses that were in Mainit. 



The town of Payeo was reduced to a barrio the same time as Besao; 

 it was part of the town of Besao, originally. Many years after it 

 was reduced to a barrio we succeeded in having it organized into a town 

 again and were then separated from Besao again; a gobernadorcillo 

 and other subordinate officials were appointed for Payeo. We were a 

 separate town for more than four years, when we were again annexed to 

 Besao; after many years we were again separated from Besao and formed 

 into a separate town. When the American Government established the pro- 

 vincial government in Lepanto, we were again annexed to Besao as a barrio. 



BARRIO OF PADANGAAN 



The original families of the barrio of Padangaan and their lives, 

 as told us by our forefathers, are as follows: 



Quindaguen and his wife Palonet from Payeo were the original people 

 that settled at Padangaan; they had planted a piece of land there with 



