The Inhabitants of the PhilippinesSawyer, Frederic H.
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The Inhabitants of the Philippines
Sawyer, Frederic H.
Ethnology -- Philippines; Philippines -- Social life and customs
Sometimes a small group of Mandaya dattos recognises as suzerain
some neighbouring datto of the piratical Moros, who always tries to
keep them isolated and to prevent any intercourse or trade with the
Christians, unless through themselves.
The Mandayas have canoes and bamboo rafts on the streams and rivers
running through their territory. They catch a good many fish.
Their agriculture is on a very reduced scale, and is limited to small
plantations of rice and sweet potatoes near their villages; they
keep poultry. They do not dare to travel far from their houses for
fear they might be seized for slaves, or even sold to be sacrificed
on the death of a datto. Sometimes when a man has been condemned to
death for some crime his datto sells him to some person requiring a
victim for the death-vengeance, if he is assured that it is intended
to kill him. The datto thus combines the execution of justice with
a due regard to his own profit.
Manguángas (5).
According to Blumentritt, this tribe lives in the Cordillera Sagat,
and extends as far as the Great Lake Boayan or Magindanao, and an
old estimate gives their number as 80,000. On his map he shows, the
Lake and River Boayan in dotted lines, the latter is made to fall
into the Rio Grande.
On two modern maps of Mindanao which I have, one by Jesuits and the
other from Don Jose Nieto Aguilar's book on this Island, neither
the river nor the lake appear; but, in their stead, a lofty range
of mountains is shown. In each of these maps the Manguánga territory
occupies an entirely different location.
As the Jesuits have three reducciones or villages amongst this
tribe, I accept their map as constructed according to the latest
information. They show in their earlier maps the Manguánga territory
at the head of the Bay of Davao, its southern frontier being some
twelve miles from the sea, and about the head-waters of the River
Salug and the River Agusan.
The reducciones are called Gandia, Pilar, and Compostela. In the
general Report of the Jesuit Missions of 1896, the mission station of
Jativa is stated to consist of six reducciones of Manobos, Mandayas
and Manguángas, with a total population of 1389.
In the general report of the following year the Manguángas and other
tribes are not specifically mentioned, and the total population of
the mission station of Jativa is given as 1458.
In a later ethnographical map of Mindanao the Manguánga territory
appears still more circumscribed, being limited to a strip of land
between the Rivers Julep and Nabo, affluents of the River Agusan;
Nieto's map, however, shows them extending over the Eastern Cordillera
towards Linguit, which is situated on the coast in about 7° 50'
N. latitude.
Dr. Montano, who went up the Rio Salug in 1880, passing through the
Manguánga territory, says he found the banks deserted.
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