The Philippine Islands, 1493-1898, Volume 43, 1670-1700: Explorations by early navigators, descriptions of the islands and their peoples, their history and records of the Catholic missions, as related in contemporaneous books and manuscripts, showing the political, economic, commercial and religious conditions of those islands from their earliest relations with European nations to the close of the nineteenth century
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The Philippine Islands, 1493-1898, Volume 43, 1670-1700: Explorations by early navigators, descriptions of the islands and their peoples, their history and records of the Catholic missions, as related in contemporaneous books and manuscripts, showing the political, economic, commercial and religious conditions of those islands from their earliest relations with European nations to the close of the nineteenth century
Demarcation line of Alexander VI; Missions -- Philippines; Philippines -- Discovery and exploration; Philippines -- History -- Sources
The Tagacaolos [146] (taga-ca-olo, "inhabitant of the head," or
"source of rivers") are as capable as the Bagobos, without being
as cruel and superstitious as they. In their contests they are
generally very valiant especially those who are widowed; for to
become a murderer is a good recommendation for the contraction of
second nuptials. The Tagacaolos are of good figure and of a somewhat
clearer complexion than those of the other tribes with the exception
of the Mandayas. The Tagacaolos occupy the mountains of Haguimítan
in the small peninsula or the cape of San Agustin. Between Malálag,
Malita, and Lais, are found 7,000 and about 2,000 in the peninsula
of San Agustin. There is a small village of this tribe in Malálag of
those newly reduced, which has already 186 Christians. The Loac are
wild Tagacaolos still more degraded than the Mamanuas who live on the
heights of Haguimítan. In the map they will be found at color no. 11.
The Dulanganes (Gulanganes) called also Bangal-bangal, like the
Manguangas, are people of the woods, and live in the mountains, about
fifteen leguas from the Rio Grande, toward the southern coast. They
are savage and fierce, and the Moros themselves who do not dare
to meddle with them call them a bad race. It could be that the so
cried-up ferocity of the Dulanganes bugaboo was invented by the
Moros for their own ends, according to a note in one of the letters
of Father Moré. Their number is unknown. They go completely naked,
and for the most indispensable covering they use a kind of small apron
made of bark or the leaves of trees. Their food is the same as that
of the Mamanuas. They do not have houses either, and live in caves
or inside the trunks of trees, or like the Mamanuas. Their weapons
are usually arrows poisoned as I have heard with the curare. Is this
perchance the same curare that is discussed by Father Gumilla in his
Orinoco ilustrado? [147] They will be found at color no. 12 in the map.
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