a fine dish. 
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We also opened a can of plum pudding which I did not 
care about* Birds; One white-tailed Eagle, flock of Brown Java Sparrows, 
Many white-headed Kingfishers, many Tringoides, one solitary Tattler, 
many Red-hilled Frogmouths, many Grows and Chats and Paraquets. We are 
three hours from Compostella, This stream is the Bacoca, with a small 
tributary, tho Tingali, 
The Me.ndayas have chopped trees hers up to 6 ft. in diameter with 
small axes which they make for themselves. The trees are chopped very 
evenly, leaving the top of the stump flat and smooth, as a rule. In the 
house we slept in were spears, shields, knives of various kinds, mats, 
rattan grass, and hemp- leaf retainers in great variety, a quart bottle 
(glass), a fireplace, spinning looms, be&dwork, a drum, a bird- trap with 
net and nooses, fowls roosting, hats with rooster tails and beetle jaw- 
ornanents. Only one Xtian in this village has his hair cut* He also 
lets his beard (quite a feature) grow. 
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May 5, 19 
Hornbills, big Pigeons, and Rainer ows are calling. We leave our 
friendly Mandayan village at the junction of the rivers Bacoca and 
Tingalia Taking an early start, with a good practico to show us the 
trail, we marched rapidly through to Compostella on the Agusan River. 
Comparatively little of the way was through the river, the trail being 
mostly through forest. Trail only fair* Large land shells were abundant 
but no live ones seen, Mr. Gerhart shot into a flock of 100 Cockatoos and 
killed 2. Hornbills, large Pigeons, green Pigeons, Rainer ows, Moiacilla; 
flock of naked-headed Starlings (at Compostella), white-headed Chat, White 
headed Hawk, White-headed Kingfisher, black Cuckoos size of Pigeon, Red- 
billed Roller Goatsucker, Tringoides, White-bellied Eagle, Shrieking-bird, 
