DATA FOR ITINERARY AND NARRATIVE. 
Parang-Buldung-Lake Butig Expedition# 
Buldung Country.— 1500-2000 feet altitude# The inhabitants are descend- 
ants of lake Lanao Mores* under two principal chiefs* Pandip&tan Kali and Sultan 
Pits lan. About 5000 inhabitants® 
bQpt >» <50 j 190 5 » Met by one of Datto Pitelan^s men on Aiabal River inhere 
we were threatened bjrt r.ot attacked# Camped at Datto Pits Ian's house in village 
of 7 houses called Madalum, 1? miles from p arang, by devious trail through forest 
jungles. At Madalum, Sultan Siatubuk called and paid his respects to Captain 
Koester, commanding# 
October 1, 1903# Rode to Datto Kali's village with Captain's Dorey and 
Me Coy, 4 miles from Madalum. 
October 2, 1903, Crossed Ambal River about 11 o'clock. The trail* which 
had gradually ascended through a forest from the Ambal River, dropped to the 
Banganan River# About one-half mile up the Banganan River a waterfall more than 
100 feet in height was passed# Camp was made on the Banganan River, 11 miles 
from Madalum. I climbed a hill across the Banganan River and slept in a wet 
forest on the grave of a Moro sub- datto killed by Lieutenant Forsyth's command, 
March 15, 1902, on hill 250 feet above the river. 
October 3, 1903# Followed a hogback for 2 miles through a forest, when 
the trail dropped to the Nituan River, then up the river one mile to Forsyth's 
camp of March 14, 1902, where a soldier of Ms troop was killed by a shot from 
ambush# This camp was 15 miles from Madalum# 
October 4, 1903# The command marched one mile to top of hill, then followed 
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a ridge for a short distance and dropped abruptly to a broad dry wash in which we 
camped at a spring, at a place called Cararao, where rest houses had been built 
for Moros crossing the mountains# Captain Koester estimated the altitude ofthis 
