Evening star., 1932-02-13
YALE MAN ESCAPES
POT
Volunteer for Philippine
Teaching Was Nearly
Boiled in Wine.
Special Dispatch to The Star.

| come walking on their hind legs .inte
| newspaper Offices. Sometimes they come
| right in and enact their dramas in tht
city room; at other times they come II
| and relate strange experiences.
The latest story to arrive in this man.
ner Is that OF master OF arts who ha'
had a narrow escape from the head
hunters of Northern Luzon-and brought
back photographs of the head-hunter.
to prove it. He is Arthur Llewellyr
Grifiths, Yale master Of arts-Yale
A. B., 1901; A. NJ, 1905, under Prof
William Lyon Phelps.
After graduation Mr.. Griff1ths an
severed Gov. Gen. William H. Taft's
call for three Yale men to be sent tc
him in the Philippines to begin the
| work of establishing schools
In Manila they asked him where HI
wanted to be sent.
Wherever it's the widest" said he
In the true Yale spirit, "and where
can do the most good
What that got him!
Pacification Not Complete.
They picked out a place near the
northern end OF Luzon, where the Abrs
River flows westward into the China
Sea. with Vigan near its mouth. Ano
from this place in his narrative forward
IT. It, should be remembered that the
paclncat1on" of the islands was no,
even yet completed.
The new teacher was RATED up th,
river to village named Bucay. hallway
between the sea and the mountain ant
long way from either 1t was the las
Filipino town in the province and 6
days journey beyond the capital. Ban.
gued.
A mile and a half upstream, towarc
the mountains, lay the first of the vii.
lagos of the Tinguianes-to hear hin
say it, "the first of the Tin Can villages.
There were lot more Of them before
you got to the foothills of the range
blue in the distance. And the Tin.
gCianes were pagan.
One day there came along an expedi
tion sent by the American government
OF the islands with orders to search ou
and visit reputed settlement of head
hunters up on the mountain top
No white man had ever got in as far a.
/ their settlements.
These mountain tribes are calle<
"Kalingas," which means war men
When Kalinga has killed an enemy
or, for that matter, a friend-he cut
the head of and boils it in a pot full
| of palm wine or other native drink
| When it is completely boiled, the skull
| is hung on the house front as an orna
ment and trophy; the soup Is drunk
F, the idea being that by consuming it tn,
drinker will absorb the strength ant
| brains Of the victim.
Contracts Dengue.
Griffiths joined the expedition and /,
| few days out contracted fine attacl
| OF dengue, which is bone-break fever
generally fatal. Griffiths didn't mucl
| know what he was doing for the mex
\ few days. They came to a little vii
| lage of a dozen huts. Tue. at the yer,
base of the mountains. and the hut
were in the air. Mr. Griffiths explained
that the Kalingas have a neat trick O
| slipping up in the night and Spearin,
| upward through hut floors. So the hu
| dwellers, the Tinguianes, climb up OF
| the mantelpiece to sleep, SO to speak.
The inhabitants fled as the 16 whit,
men arrived. whereupon the expedition
moved in, Mr.. Grifiths taking the enc
hut. He had gone to sleep, when al
uproar broke out in the village: shout.
and shots, and before he had time t.
waltzed in on him and tied him up
! hands and feet.
They lowered him to the ground. anc
then slung him on a pole, exactly a.
they would carry trussed pig.
trussed pig. in great pain from dengut
and from the pull on his bonds, get.
little enjoyment of the scenery H,
| didn't even get much satisfaction ou
of the knowledge that his companion.
J had beaten off the attack Of the Kal
| ingas. All he knew was that they hae
got him.
The returning warriors were met a
! the village by shouting and dancing
women. They carried their pig to tn,
| last house and dumped him in at the
| door, pole, thongs and all.
Counts Bleached Skulls.
He could see as he lay the stones ant
ashes of previous fires, right opposit,
| his hut. Down one side of the stree
i he could count the bleached skull.
an idea.
All day long he was left there. A!
| the darkness came, the tom-tom.
| from out of town. A kettle was brough
to the fireplace opposite the hut. ane
a cheerful blaze started up under
meath it.
While the water was heating. tht
J Kilangas and their Kilangesses begar
| tribal dance which seemed to be par
of the recipe for head-boiling. Mr.
Griffiths, feeling more than ever likt
soupstock, had passed through so man!
stages of pain and fright that he hac
actually become calloused and was ablt
| to reflect that though it might b.
painful it wouldn't be long.
| And then, at the very last possible
! minute, when the palm wine was al
ready sending up its steam. when thu
| dance was about at its finish. there
was most welcome sound of shots.
The Kalingas didn't yell; they rar
mighty silent and disappeared entirely
| outside the village. In minutes more
he was rescued, and became the frs
white man who ever got into a head.
| hunters village with any prospect ol
| getting out again alive, and the nearest
/ get in.'
Friends Bring Pony.
His friends had brought his whole xii
and his pony. They had missed hin
| and started not more than an houl
| after his departure. The trail hac
been perfectly easy to follow.
Inc eXpedltlOn naQ an interpreter
along and he made shift to talk with
| the Kalingas next morning, and tt
make them understand that the ex.
pedition was friendly. So the white
men stayed, and the Kalingas came
back to town and no reference was
made to the awkward matter of boil
! ing a friends head or shooting two
or three hosts. The photographer o1
the expedition pictured some of thu
more beautiful head hunters, and the
chief, who was chief because he helc
the head record-44 skulls-of the vii
age, undertook. when Mr.. Griffiths wa
too sick to stay any longer, to furnish
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