The Birmingham age-herald., 1906-05-13

They eat anything that lives-crows, rats cats. Crocodile flesh Is great luxury, but 1t Is not often that the reptile can be trapped.
 The Mangyans are curlously material istic. They have no religious belief and no conception of a deity They are sin gularly free from superstitions and have no idea of the supernatural. Immortality they cannot understand, nor any existence beyond the present. When questioned upon the subject they assert: When Mangyan is dead, he is dead" How a people whose Negrito and visayo fore fathers entertained the most extravagant superstitions have themselves become en- trely divested of them is m inexplicable puzzle.
 The Negritos and other wild inland tribes sometimes enjoy a clvilizing indu- ence from the settlement among them of remontados. These are Malay refugees from the Christian centers who, from n desire to avoid the restraints of civiliza- tion, or in order to escape punishment for some crime, retreat to the mountains, where they revert to a more or less wild
 
 advancement amongst the tribes which absorb them. The Pulijanes of Samar with whom the American authorities have recently had trouble. are largely made up of remontados and their connec- tions.
 Next to the Moros, the Igorots are the most numerable among the peoples of the Philippines who are commonly regard ed as wild. According to the census of 1903, the Igorots exceed 1S0, 900 in num- Der. The census returns relating to these people were secured in novel manner. The Igorot cannot count beyond 10, and 10 tens mark the limit of his ability to calculate. Beyond 100 numbers have no definite meaning for him. Having been made to understand what the enumer- ators desired to learn, the head men of the village brought in bundles of notched sticks-one bundle to represent the men, another the women. a third the hogs, fourth the chickens, and so on.
 The Igorots are probably the descend ants of the first Malay invaders, who gradually reached Luzon by way of the intervening islands in the dim and dis tant past. When, centuries later, an OtneT IFOm tuelT Idtueridnu OC- cured, they doubtless received the new corners as foreigners and retired before them to the remote districts of the ints- rior They are now settled in the north ern provinces of Luzon, chiefly in Lepanto- Bontoc and Nueva yizcaya; in fact, the population of the former is almost entire ly composed of Igorots. In the districts contiguous to Christian settlements they have, in many cases, made considerable advance towards civilization but farther in the interior they maintain their old manner of living. and head hunting has not been abandoned by any means. It Is hardly necessary to state that their habits are extremely sedentary. For an Igorot the world beyond the limits of his own village Is filled with men who are yearn- Ing to decapitate him. In the neighboring village, which he may plainly see from the door of his hut, are scores of keen edged axes awaiting the first favorable opportunity for use. and hanging. perhaps, from the belts of impatient young bucks. who may not marry until they have laid fresh and bleeding head at the feet of the betrothed. The hunter is not particu- lar as to the sex or age of the prize. So that 1t is human head, 1t matters not whether 1t comes of the trunk of man, woman or child. Therefore. and not on account of any inclination upon the part