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Vol. XXII, No. 3 



WASHINGTON 



March, 1911 



THE 



NATHOHAIL 



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 A3AEHNE 



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FIELD SPORTS AMONG THE WILD MEN 

 OF NORTHERN LUZON 



By Dean C. Worcester 

 Secretary of the Interior of the Philippine Islands 



With Photographs by the Author 



MY acquaintance with the wild 

 men of northern Luzon began 

 in July, 1900, shortly after the 

 arrival of the second Philippine Com- 

 mission at Manila. 



We now know that there are but seven 

 non-Christian tribes in northern Luzon, 

 namely, the Negritos, the Benguet- 

 Lepanto Igorots, the Ilongots or Ibilaos, 

 the Ifugaos, the Bontoc Igorots, the 

 Kalingas, and the Tingians ; but at that 

 time no member of the Philippine Com- 

 mission had any personal familiarity with 

 the tribes of this region. My own pre- 

 vious travels had been limited to Marin- 

 duque, Mindoro, the Visayan Islands, 

 Mindanao, and the Sulu, Tawi-Tawi, and 

 Palawan groups. No other Commis- 

 sioner had ever previously visited the 

 Philippines. I was therefore forced to 

 get my information concerning the non- 

 Christian people of northern Luzon from 

 the available literature, which was full 

 of contradictions and obvious misstate- 

 ments. 



For instance, Fernando Blumentritt, 

 whose extraordinarily incorrect state- 



ments relative to the non-Christian peo- 

 ple of this region had at that time hardly 

 been questioned, assigned to it a total of 

 some 36 tribes, while the Jesuit priests 

 at Manila, following Blumentritt for the 

 most part, gave a total of 26. 



In the general scheme of government 

 for the Philippines, the control of all 

 non-Christian tribes, except those of the 

 Moro province, was assigned to the Sec- 

 retary of the Interior. It also fell to my 

 lot to draft such legislation as might be 

 deemed necessary in the premises ; and, 

 in order that I might do this with an 

 adequate knowledge of the facts and 

 might exercise intelligently the somewhat 

 arbitrary authority vested in me by law, 

 it seemed to me necessary to visit the 

 wild man at home, and to investigate 

 conditions on the ground. I therefore 

 began a series of trips which were at first 

 limited to the territory over which the 

 Spaniards had established some sem- 

 blance of authority, but were gradually 

 extended to previously unknown regions 

 until I had familiarized myself with 

 conditions throughout practically all of 

 northern Luzon. 



