The Bontoc Igorot eBook

This eBook from the Gutenberg Project consists of approximately 387 pages of information about The Bontoc Igorot.

The Bontoc Igorot eBook

This eBook from the Gutenberg Project consists of approximately 387 pages of information about The Bontoc Igorot.

There were four of these large, tireless creatures near the pueblo, but an American shot one in 1900.  The other three may be seen day in and day out, high above the mountain range west of the pueblo, sailing like aimless pleasure boats.  Now and then they utter their penetrating cry of “qu-iu’-kok.”

[37] —­ MUNIA JAGORI (Martens).

[38] —­ “A wife monkey.”

[39] —­ An iguana some two feet long.

[40] —­ CORONE PHILIPPA (Bonap.).

[41] —­ The Korean Review, July, 1903, pp. 289 —­ 294.

[42] —­ William Edwin Safford, American Anthropologist, April —­ June, 1903, p. 293.

[43] —­ Otto Scheerer (Ms.), The Ibaloi Igorot, Ms. Coll., Ethnological Survey for the Philippine Islands.

[44] —­ One blind.

[45] —­ From Ilokano.

[46] —­ Many small stars

[47] —­ The country northward

[48] —­ The country southward

[49] —­ It is probable they seldom count as high as 13,000

[50] —­ These people say they have no separate adverbs denoting repetition of action —­ as, once, twice, thrice, four times, ten times, etc.  They use the ordinal numerals for this purpose also.

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