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Updated: September 13, 2025
A fine of chickens, pigs, sementeras, sometimes even of carabaos, is the usual penalty for assault and battery. Adultery is not a common crime. I was unable to learn that the punishment for adultery was ever the subject for a council of the old men.
Where the Dutch Government extended these were not permitted; but sometimes carabaos or pigs were killed in a cruel manner, with the blood of which the high priest smeared the forehead, breast, and arms of the head of the family. In the chapter De monstris et quasi monstris * of Father Camel, London Philos.
At the conclusion of the anointing, the old men discuss the disposal of the property and other matters of importance in connection with the death. The Layog. Friends come from near and far; and rice, pigs, cows or carabaos are prepared for food, while basi flows freely. It is said that the liquor served at this time is "like tears for the dead."
The immediate surroundings of every Igorot group is the home of the a-ni'-to of departed members of the group, though they do not usually live in the pueblo itself. Their dwellings, sementeras, pigs, chickens, and carabaos in fact, all the possessions the living had are scattered about in spirit form, in the neighboring mountains.
Horses and carabao are very rare, and are said to have been introduced late, not before the present century. During the year he roams at large on the pastures, in the forest, or on a small island, where such exists, in the neighborhood. Some times in the year one may see several carabaos, attached to the large trunk of a tree, dragging it to the village.
Francisco Mercado was well to do, if we may judge from the number of carabaos he presented for registration, for his was among the largest herds in the book of brands that has chanced to be preserved with the Biñan church records. In 1783 he was alcalde, or chief officer of the town, and he lived till 1801.
The people of Bontoc say that when Lumawig came to Bontoc they had no domestic carabaos that those they now have were originally purchased, before the Spaniards came, from the Tinguian of Abra Province. There are in the neighborhood of 400 domestic carabaos owned in Bontoc and Samoki. Most of them run half wild in the mountains encircling the pueblos.
Carabaos are almost invariably traded for these. Sometimes one carabao, sometimes two, and again three are bartered for one gold earring. During the months of March and April the pueblo of Balili traded three of these earrings to Bontoc men for carabaos, and this particular form of barter has been carried on for generations.
With the exception of the flat shore, the whole place is hilly and overgrown with grass and clumps of trees, capital pasture for its numerous herds a thousand carabaos, one thousand five hundred to two thousand bullocks, and from six to seven hundred nearly wild horses.
Being set in motion by two carabaos attached in front, it drags several heavy stones, which are bound firmly to it with rattans, round the circle, and in this manner crushes the broken rock, which has been previously mixed with water, to a fine mud.
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