The usual dress and clothing of that people is a loose shock of disheveled hair that reaches below the ears, and certain bands about one jeme [55] wide made from the bark of trees.  Having wound these about the waist, they twist them so that they cover the privy parts.  They call these bahaques, and they are worn by all classes of people, men and women.  Besides the said bahaque, the chiefs wear Ilocan blankets, which they have inherited from their ancestors; this garment is crossed from the shoulder to the waist, where they knot it.  Thus do they go, without any other clothes or shoes. [56] The chiefs of those natives are not differentiated from the rest of the people in other things than in the possession of more bones of animals that they have killed in their feasts, more clothes, and greater age.  There are more chiefs than in other nations, for there is one in every ten or twelve houses, who is head of his kinsfolk.  They inherit from father to children, or by blood, and do not recognize one as greater than the other.  Those chiefs generally insert gold in the teeth, which is so well fitted that it does not hinder their talking or eating at all.

The Ygolotes are in general a very active people, bold, well built, and feared by the other nations surrounding them.  As they have discovered that, and that others, even when numerous, always run from them, the Ygolotes attack with but few men.  Whenever they kill anyone, scarcely has he fallen before his head is cut off.  On that account they make many feasts, and at night light many fires on many peaks.  They make cups of the skulls, from which they drink in their feasts and revelries; and leave them as household effects to their heirs.  If any of them are killed, and they can conceal it, they endeavor to do so; for they grieve greatly and consider it as a very great insult if the bodies of their dead are not carried away.

The arms used by them consist of a pointed lance one-third of a vara long, which they generally carry, well polished, and set in a handle of strong wood more than one braza long.  They have others with which they usually fight, made from heavy green poles, larger than the above.  At the head they insert a bamboo knot, with its point well sharpened into two edges.  They cover themselves with their shields, which consist of certain short and very light boards, about four or five palmos long and two or more wide.  They use many sharp-pointed stakes with which they sow the ground, particularly about their haunts, and wherever harm might come to them. [57]

The Ygolotes are an idolatrous race.  They say that their god is the sky, whom they call Cabunian; and they offer and sacrifice to him, in their banquets and feasts, swine and carabaos, but under no consideration cows or bulls.  The method of sacrifice practiced by them is [as follows].  Having tied all the animals not prohibited about the house of the sacrificer, after the ceremony an old man or old woman, having placed on the ground a painted cloth that resembles a surplice, and which they call salili, they continue to kill the animals, and make a great feast.  They keep that up for two or three days until they have finished eating what they have, when their feast or magunito also finishes.  He who keeps up such entertainment longest and kills most of the said animals is most respected.