THE ILONGOT OR IBILAO OF LUZON 525 
Tribes, and engaged in a preliminary reconnaissance of the pagan 
peoples of northern Luzon, made a trip with a small party to one of 
their communities in the mountains east of Bambang. Photographs, 
measurements and notes on their language and social institutions were 
made. In January, 1906, Mr. Dean C. Worcester, secretary of the 
interior, approached these people from the north, by ascending the 
Kagayan river. His party started from a station of the Tabacalera 
Company, south of Echague, and from there rode through fine forest to 
a “sitio” called Masaysayasaya. From here they “started at dawn 
and about noon passed the ‘dead line’ set by the Ilongotes. A little 
before sundown reached Dumabato, an Ilongote and Negrito settlement, 
which had been the headquarters of Sibley,? the deserter. Here were 
found a few filthy Ilongotes and some fine Negritos.” 
In the spring of 1908, Dr. William Jones, of the Field Columbian 
Museum, began a residence among the Ilongot of the. upper Kagayan 
and lived with them continuously until nearly a year had passed, when 
he was killed by them. His notes and specimens were fortunately pre- 
served and, when published, should constitute the most original and 
important contribution ever made to Philippine ethnology. Dr. Jones 
was part American Indian, a member of the Sac and Fox tribe. He 
was not only a brilliant scientist, but one of the most engaging and 
interesting men I have ever known—a man to cleave to. Here are brief 
extracts from two letters written by him from the Ibilao country, val- 
uable, I think, not only for the information they contain about this 
people, but for the light they throw upon him and his manner of work. 
May 26, 1908. I am at present among the Ilongotes of the Cagayan, where 
I am having the most enjoyable time sinee my arrival in the islands. These 
people are wilder than the Igorrotes. We made friends at the beginning and 
the friendship has grown wider and stronger every succeeding day. I have a 
shack high up on poles where I dwell with great comfort. And plenty of food 
is to be had always; wild hog and venison in the jungle on either side of the 
river; lurong and liesas in the river; wild honey back on the mountain side; 
bananas, beans, camote and other things from the cultivated patches, and rice 
which has been saved from last season. For the last fortnight the people have 
been clearing in the jungle for sementeras.* I wish you might hear the sweet 
melody of the songs of boys and women at work in the clearings, songs sung 
to the spirits of the trees and for good crops. Ilongot society is much simpler 
than that of the Igorote; there is little if any of what may be called village life. 
There is a house here, another yonder and so on here and there along the river. 
Places near the river are reached by going on balsas® and away from the river 
the trails are dim and indistinct. I do not know where I shall end up.~* am 
heading up-stream. It may be that I shall find myself going west and south- 
west into the country of the Ilongotes, who are enemies of the ones I am now 
* Sibley was an American soldier from the 16th Infantry who deserted in 
1900, and lived for over four years, a renegade among these people. He finally 
surrendered to Governor Curry, of Isabela province. 
* Fields for seeding. 
5 Cane rafts. 
