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With cries of delight we drove into a great cocoanut-grove, and a thousand feet back from the Broom Road emerged into a sunlit, but shady, clearing. Huro! the banquet was already being spread. From different parts of the plantation men came bearing huge platters of roasted pig, chicken, taro, breadfruit, and feis, with bamboo tubes of the taiaro sauce like the reeds of a great pipe-organ.
We had introductions here to several gentlemen, who promised to forward our views. We were amused with the extraordinary appearance of the natives in the streets barbarism and civilisation met together. The former dress of the men was the taro, a kilt joined between the legs, so as to form a wide and very short pair of breeches.
"I suppose we were new once, too, weren't we?" said Take, watching the butterfly. "I suppose we were," Taro answered. "We grew right up out of the root of a tree. Natsu told me so." "I wonder which tree it was," Take said. "It must have been one of the trees in our own garden, of course," Taro answered; "or else we shouldn't be here."
About a fortnight after the fair, on a fine windy afternoon, there was a holiday, and Taro, with his father and his younger brother Ito, turned out to fly kites. Some of their neighbours were already at work flying kites from the roofs of the houses or from windows, but our friends wanted more room than that, and went up to a piece of higher ground behind their street.
The remainder of the time was their own, to cultivate such patches of taro as he allowed them to occupy, or to do what they pleased.
Knowing that it would be futile to attempt to persuade him that I gave the thing freely, and without expecting any return, I said that, although the umbrella was worth a merè ponamu, at least, yet that I should be satisfied if he would give me a kitful of taro in exchange. This thoroughly jumped with the old man's humour.
After being threshed in the wooden mortar the winnowed seeds are again returned to the mortar and crushed. This crushed grain is cooked as is rice and without salt. It is eaten also with the hands "fingers" is too delicate a term. Some other vegetable foods are also cooked and eaten by the Igorot. Among them is taro which, however, is seldom grown in the Bontoc area.
When Take remembered that they were going to take Bot'Chan to the Temple, she clapped her little brown hands. "Oh, I'm so glad!" she said. Then she popped out from under the covers of her bed and stood up on the soft straw matting. She was no sooner out of bed than from far away came the "Cling-cling-clang" of a great gong. And then, "Tum-tum-t-y-y-rum" rolled a great drum. "Hark!" said Taro.
When the chiefs and people were ready to go off for weeks to certain places in the bush for the sport of pigeon-catching, offerings of cooked taro and fish were laid on the stones, accompanied by prayers for fine weather and no rain.
"Oh, Taro," Take called to him, "you aren't really and truly boiled, are you?" "Almost," sniffed Taro; "I'm as red as a red dragon. I think my skin will come off." "I know you are dreadfully hurt, poor Taro," Take said, "because a son of the Samurai never complains, no matter how hard his lot." The water was cooler now. Taro's head disappeared below the edge of the tub.
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