possible to be, so now everything was light, graceful, agile, and quick; leaps forward and back, leaps sideways, the two combatants maneuvering, as it were, one around the other, for position.  It was hard to realize that human motions could be so graceful, light and easy.  Then head-knives were drawn, and cuts right, and cuts left, cuts at every part of the body from the head to the ankles, were added to the motion; the man on the defensive for the moment making suitable parries with his shield.

The dance completed, the dancers would advance and face Mr. Worcester, put their heels together in true military fashion, hold their arms out right and left, and make a slight inclination of the head, a sort of salute, in fact, to the one they regarded as the principal personage of the party.

We saw much dancing later on in our trip, but none that equalled this in intensity and character, apart from its being of a totally different kind, Heiser managed, with some difficulty, to take a photograph of the tense phase of one of the dances; it gives a better idea of the phase than my imperfect description.

The dancing was followed by archery, the target being a small banana stem at some thirty paces.  This calls for no especial comment, except that many hits were made, and many of the misses would have hit a man.  More interesting was an ambush they laid for us, to show how they attacked.  While collecting for it, to our astonishment the entire party suddenly ran in all directions at top speed and hid behind whatever offered.  On their return, in four or five minutes, they explained that a spirit had suddenly appeared among them, and that they had had to run.  On our asking how they knew a spirit had turned up, they asked if we had not noticed leaves and grass flying in a spiral.  As a matter of fact, some of us had, a very small and very gentle whirlwind having formed for a second or two.  They had seen it, too, and that was the spirit.

It was now mid-day; we had tiffin, and began preparations for our departure.  The various arms, shields, and other things we had bought were collected to be cargadoed back to Pangasinan.  Among them, alas! were not two beautiful head-knives, which their wearers had absolutely declined to part with on any terms whatever.  They resisted the Governor-General even.  I give a photograph here of a knife and scabbard that Connor sent me on later.  It is a handsome one, but not as handsome as those two jewels!

Our last performance was to look at the garden and to see the school at work, making thread and rope, weaving mats, and so on.  I take it that this school was really the significant thing at Campote, apart from the significance of the occasion itself.  We spent but little time over it, however, our interest in the arts of war having left us only a few minutes for those of peace.  Nevertheless, here is a beginning that will bear fruit, and in the meantime Connor rides alone and in safety among these wild people, which proves a good many things, when you select the right man to do your hard work.