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camotes and other vegetables, so they went and made their home there; 

 while there they had 5 children, 3 boys and 2 girls. Smallpox then broke 

 out at Payeo; the people there were very much frightened over it, because 

 that was the first time that that disease ever appeared among them; 

 consequently a good many of the Payeo people moved to Padangaan; in 

 this manner Padangaan became inhabited and so Padangaan is the off- 

 spring of Payeo. 



In 1902, Padangaan became a barrio of Besao. A short list 

 of its officials since that time and the names and marks of the 

 old men consulted follow. 



BARRIO OF AGAUA 



The original families of the barrio of Agaua, as it has been told to 

 us from generation to generation are as follows: 



Bodoos, Seppa his wife, and his two daughters, from the rancheria of 

 Fidelizan, of the town of Sagada, had a she hog who went to have her 

 pigs at a place called Agaua. That was before anyone lived at that 

 place. Bodoos went after her but he did not succeed in getting her home, 

 so he built himself a little hut there in which he lived while taking 

 care of the hogs. While there, he noticed that the place was good for 

 planting, as it was swampy; therefore, he decided to make their home 

 there; he brought his family over and they were the first settlers in 

 Agaua. When Bodoos's daughters, who were named Bal-i and Canopa, 

 had grown up, they married two young men, one from Fidelizan, named 

 Pag-ha, and the other one from Tubo, Abra, named Tobtaben. Pag-ha 

 married Bal-i and had 2 sons by her, who were named Basicon and 

 Pilingen; Tobtaben married Canopa and had 3 children by her, 2 boys, 

 Olao and Atioag, and 1 girl named Dal-ling. When the sons of Pag-ha 

 and Tobtaben grew up to be men, they went to Fidelizan to get married; 

 Fidelizan is not very far from Agaua, only a mountain separating the 

 two; after they had all got married, they returned to Agaua with their 

 wives; in this manner the population of Agaua increased also by many 

 people coming from other places. 



Lists of the officials of the barrio follow. The barrio was at 

 first annexed to Sagada, and in 1908 it became a part of Besao. 



VARIOUS EVENTS 



During Domeguias's time as gobernadorcillo, the towns of Mainit, Gui- 

 naang, and Dalican made a combined head-hunting trip to the town of 

 Agaua, without any cause whatever that the people of Agaua were aware 

 of. They killed 11 people, and the rest of the Agaua people, not being 

 able to hold their own, ran away; then the head-hunters plundered the 

 town and took everything away with them, as palay, putic (jars), brass 

 gongs, hogs, and everything that they could find, after which they set fire 

 to the town and not a house or granary was left standing. The people 

 escaped in all directions, some went to Besao, some to Payeo, others went 

 down to the coast and to other places. Five months after this incident, 

 Domeguias, the gobernadorcillo, called all the people back to Agaua; some 

 returned and others remained where they had made their homes by that 

 time. When they had rebuilt their town again, they thought that they 



