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SKETCH MAP OE NORTHERN LUZON 



These trips were at first made at my 

 own discretion, but later the provinces 

 largely populated by non-Christians were 

 organized under the so-called Special 

 Provincial Government Act, and the duty 

 of visiting and inspecting each such prov- 

 ince at least once during each fiscal year 

 was imposed by law upon the Secretary 

 of the Interior. 



The number of wild men who assem- 

 bled to meet me at important points was 

 at first small, and the meetings held with 

 them were very informal. The meetings 

 are still informal, but the attendance 

 now sometimes reaches 6,000 or 8,000. 

 Opportunities are thus afforded to meet 

 the headmen of entire subprovinces and 

 amicably to discuss past occurrences and 

 future plans. Gradually it has come to 

 be understood that the feuds between 

 hostile settlements must be forgotten at 



such gatherings. As a result 

 there are often present delega- 

 tions from settlements which 

 have been fighting each other 

 for years. When such people 

 .have once been brought into con- 

 tact with each other it has often 

 proved a comparatively simple 

 matter to establish more or less 

 permanent friendly relations be- 

 tween them. 



It is obviously essential to 

 maintain peace during the period 

 of 24 to 48 hours while they 

 are together. To do this and at 

 the same time create just the 

 right atmosphere to stimulate 

 the frank and friendly discus- 

 sion of any vexed questions 

 which demand settlement, and 

 the bringing about of friendly 

 understandings between old ene- 

 mies, requires no little tact and 

 good judgment. On more than 

 one occasion I have seen a thou- 

 sand or more fighting men rush 

 to arms and begin looking for 

 trouble as the result of some 

 occurrence which should have 

 been of insignificant importance. 

 Yet in the end good fortune has 

 always attended us, and thus far 

 no one has ever been killed, or 

 wounded except by accident, while pres- 

 ent at one of these gatherings. 



NATIVES FOND OE INTOXICANTS 



In achieving this very fortunate result, 

 we have always been careful to see that 

 there was plenty to eat and not too much 

 to drink! The latter condition is not al- 

 ways easily maintained. Any one who 

 knows the Christian Filipinos knows that 

 the vice of alcoholism will never become 

 common among them, but with the wild 

 men the case is very different. Many 

 of them are prone to overindulge in alco- 

 holic stimulants ; and, indeed, some of 

 the tribes hardly considered it good form 

 to leave a fiesta sober. At the outset the 

 hillmen received the white man's fire- 

 water with enthusiasm and promptly got 

 so drunk that the universe seemed to 



