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Lieutenant-Governor, they and their followers speak among 
themselves kainalingka, in which they are able, according to 
my informants, to make themselves mutually understood, with 
more or less difficulty, in spite of dialectic differences. Two 
Fig. 1. The subprovince of Kalinga. 
townships alone are pointed out as not coming within this range 
of general intelligibility; those are Bakali (?<z'6a kali other 
speech) and Kalakkad; to communicate with these the Iloko 
language is made use of. 4 
4 The map of Northern Luzon of the Coast and Geodetic Survey (1912), 
on which my sketch is in part based, shows on the upper course of what 
is called farther down the Tardi River the two settlements of Bocale 
and Calacad, situated east of the Mangali-Lubo district. To Governor 
Carpenter, of the Department of Mindanao and Sulu and director of the 
Bureau of Non-Christian Tribes, I owe the information that by Executive 
Order No. 53 of May 29, 1914, “all that territory lying south of the 
Tardi River and the territory drained by the Siffu River now situate 
in the subprovince of Kalinga, Mountain Province,” was transferred from 
the said subprovince to that of Bontoc. 
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