The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1905-10-15

all the American people were gathered,
that they might build g. village and
show our ways Of living. He got plenty
of Bontoc men and women to go, and
when they came back they had SO many
wonders to tell us that it took six Of
them. three days and three nights,
standing din up before our people talking
they had forgotten or left out much.
He said the the Americans had
small suns, so many that they could not
be counted, and these made the whole
country light on the darkest night.
They said that the people travelled
about in houses on wheels, and these
houses went of themselves like flying
birds, with all the people in them. They
told us that many Of the Americans
houses were as tall as the .tallest trees.
We didn It think that was good, because
who would want to climb treef
All the time that the travellers were
telling Of the wonders that they had
seen, q great feast was going on In our
heard Of among us. The people Of the
other towns were all invited. One hun.
bred and fifty buffaloes were killed TO,
the feast, and there were pigs, goats
and all sorts of fowls, as well as sweet
potatoes, rice, fruit and nuts, ard the
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The best dog is male about four
years Of age, It he is healthy and fat
t M Il ssR R6egts SO eeaa hsR 1Ga sts9
are the best. We eat dogs when we are
going to war because they make us
fierce and help us to hear, see and smell
well.
the Big BE feast was going on, and fhe peo'
pie that came from the other towns
stayed for q week. When 1t was all
over I went away from Bontoc with a
lot more men and women to come to
America to see all the wonders. 1t
was the first time had ever been more
than days journey from Bontoc. We
went thru the great forests, and it was
mountains. Up in our mountains It is
cool. but in the valleys so hot that
some Of the people fall like dead.
There are no roads, but just thin
paths thru the woods, and these are
blocked with creepers that have thorns
on them. The white men went very
slowly; the thorns caught them and the
creePers held them back if they were
big snakes. It made us laugh many
times to see the way the white men tan.
gled themselves up in the creepers. We
were twenty days reaching the big
water (13o miles,, and then only half a
day going the same distance in fire
canoe Of the white men. We got to
the big city Of the white men, where
Spaniards used to be, but where our
friends, the Americans, now are.
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We just had time to look at 1t and see
that it was very wonderful when we
had to 90 on a canoe that was as long
as man could run while he held three
breaths. 1t was SO big that it could
haye held all the people in our town
There were many people in it, and they
lived all the time in different parts Of
that big canoe.
There was a place in the middle Of it
whore great fire burned all the time;
a fire SO great that it looked to me like
the fire that is inside the burning
mountain. I was afraid that it would
burn us all up, but the white men knew
how to shut It up
It was this fire that made the canoe
90. I don't know how, but that was
the way. We went very fast all the
time; just as fast at night as in the
daytime. We never stopped at all.
After the first day or two we saw no
land. I would never have believed