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and off for Lubuagan, distant 54 miles, 

 in traveling which we shall climb and 

 descend many thousand feet. Between 

 10 and 2 o'clock it will be too hot for 

 our ponies, so we must take two days 

 for the trip. 



Late in the afternoon of the second 

 day, while resting at Bahgad, we are met 

 on the trail by a delegation of 29 men 

 and one woman from Lubo. Lubo is the 

 town that attacked former Lieutenant 

 Governor Folkmar and got burned out 

 for its pains. It has recently sent Lieu- 

 tenant Governor Hale word that it would 

 take his head; but Lubo says that it has 

 finally decided to be good and is volun- 

 tarily coming to Lieutenant Governor 

 Hale's capital, where it is likely to meet 

 the Mangali people, with whom it has 

 been fighting within a few weeks. There 

 is a suspicious circumstance about the 

 makeup of this party. It includes but 

 one woman. War parties take one 

 woman with them ; friendly parties take 

 two! 



As we continue our journey the Lubo 

 men fall in behind us, and we keep a 

 sharp eye on them. We reach Lubuagan 

 after dark and are escorted into town 

 by Igorots who have come out in the 

 rain with torches to meet us. There are 

 but few people about the plaza when we 

 awake in the morning, but more come in 

 rapidly, and by the time breakfast is over 

 dancing has begun. The Lubuagan Igo- 

 rots are probably of the same tribe as 

 their neighbors of Bontoc on the south, 

 but differ from them materially in dress 

 and in ornaments. The leading men of 

 the Lubuagan Igorots wear elaborate 

 and beautiful feather head-dresses and 

 rattan caps ornamented with agate beads. 

 Frequently, also, they stick scarlet hibis- 

 cus flowers into their hair. The women 

 wear handsomely woven and brightly 

 colored skirts, supported underneath at 

 the waist by numerous coils of braided 

 fiber cord. Some of them also wear 

 upper garments, which they usually dis- 

 card when they dance. 



The dancing is better than any we 

 have heretofore seen. Eighteen gansa 



A TINGIAN PLAYING THE) NOSE FXUTE 



Of the many remarkable musical instru- 

 ments in use in the Philippines, the nose flute 

 is one of the oddest. 



players enter the circle at once, and 30 

 or 40 women and girls join them, danc- 



