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Updated: May 8, 2025
A Severe Bout of Malaria in the Wilds The "Seamy Side" of Exploration Unfortunate Shooting of the Chief's Dog Filipino Credulity Stories of the Buquils and their Bearded Women Expedition Planned Succession of contretemps Start for the Buquil Country Scenes on the Way A Negrito Mother's Method of Giving Drink to Her Baby Exhausting Marches Amid Striking Scenery The Worst Over A Bolt from the Blue Negritos in a Fury Violent Scenes at a Negrito Council of War They Decide on Reprisals Further Progress Barred in Consequence Return to Florida Blanca.
As we continued on our journey, I noticed that our five Negrito carriers were joined by several others all well armed with bows and extra large bundles of arrows, and on my asking Vic the reason, he told me that these Buquils we were going to visit were very treacherous, and our Negritos would never venture amongst them unless in a strong body.
Needless to say I was not keen on stalking Buquils who were waiting for me with steel arrows in long grass, and, besides, if I went with the gallant little nine hundred, I should miss my steamer. I never heard the result of that fight, much as I should like to have known it. After the meeting had dispersed, we returned to the river and rested.
Never before or since have I been amongst so much fever as I was in this district. In any case I had made up my mind to see these Buquils, but we had now lost two days, and there was only just enough time left to get there and back and to journey back to Manila and catch my steamer.
In any case I should have been killed. Vic told me that very few of these Buquils ever leave their mountain valleys, and so most of them had never seen a Filipino, much less a white man. And so I met with a very great disappointment, and was forced to leave without proving whether or no the story of these bearded women was a myth.
Vic, whom I always found to be most truthful in everything, and who rarely exaggerated, declared it was true, and furthermore told me that these Buquils had long smooth hair, which proved that they could not have been Negritos. Besides, I learnt that they were quite a tall people.
For some time past I had heard rumours of an extraordinary tribe of Negritos who lived further back in the mountains, and were named Buquils, and whose women were reported to have beards.
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