53° 
yan, toward the province of Isabela, 
we have the Ilongot communities 
in which Dr. Jones worked, and lost 
his life, Dumabato, Kagadyangan 
and others. It may be that these II- 
ongot communicate with the 'Taga- 
log town of Kasiguran. In all of 
these communities together there 
are probably only a couple of thou- 
sand souls at most. Few communi- 
ties have as many as twenty houses 
or 200 souls; the most are isolated 
groups of four or five married 
couples and their immediate rela- 
tions. The harsh nature of their 
country, unsanitary life, occasional 
epidemics and most of all their per- 

A’ YOUNG WoMAN or OyAo, NUEVA 
VIZCAYA, 
Photograph taken in 1904. 
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AN ILonGotT MAN or BayyAIT, NUEVA 
VIZCAYA, 
The photograph shows the curious 
deer skin cape and hat worn by the 
men when hunting or traveling in the 
rain. 
petual warfare contribute toward 
their diminution rather than their 
increase. 
Like other primitive Malayan 
people who live in the forest, the 
Ilongot support life by  culti- 
vating a forest clearing or “ kain- 
gin.” The great trees are girdled, 
men ascend their smooth clean 
trunks a hundred feet or more 
and daringly lop away their 
branches and stems that the 
life of the tree may be destroyed 
and tle sunlight be admitted to 
the earth below. At Patakgao I 
was shown some beautiful long 
