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The recollection of my wife, whom I had left at Manilla, and who was far from supposing me to be among the Igorrots, inspired me with the most anxious desire of returning home to my family as quick as possible. Absorbed in my thoughts, and carried away by my reflections, I walked silently along, without even casting a glance upon the luxuriant vegetation all around us.
The Igorrots seemed quite surprised at my so doing, but they made no opposition to it. I found myself within an obnoxious hole, or hovel, through a small opening in the summit of which the daylight peeped in and the smoke crept out. The floor was thickly covered with dust, and it was upon such a soft couch that the whole family laid down to rest.
Not being disposed to go back by the same way I had come, I determined upon keeping more to the east, crossing over the mountains, and upon taking the sun as my guide. This road seemed preferable to me, inasmuch as I was about to traverse a country inhabited by a few Igorrots, that other species of the savage tribe I was not acquainted with.
Oh! but he is far, very far indeed, from being so wicked as those savages, who kill you without saying a word to you, and then eat up your brains fie!" And here Alila heaved a deep sigh, for the brain feast was ever present to his mind. His conversation so interested me, his system was so curious, and he himself so frank in drawing it out, that I almost forgot the Igorrots in listening to him.
Visit to Manabo Conversation with my Guide Religion of the Tinguians Their Marriage Ceremony Funereal Rites Mode of Warfare I take leave of the Tinguians Journey to the Igorrots Description of them Their Dwellings A Fortunate Escape Alila and the Bandits Recollections of Home A Majestic Fig-tree Superstition of Alila Interview with an Igorrot The Human Hand Nocturnal Adventure Consternation of Alila Probable Origin of the Tinguians and Igorrots.
We must go to our homes, and this we cannot do without passing through the woods inhabited by these abominable creatures, who made us eat raw meat, and seasoned only with cinders. Well, master, before you undertook this excursion, you ought to have recollected all that happened to us among the Tinguians and the Igorrots."
I had my reasons for so doing: I wished, if possible, to make an excursion to the Tinguians and Igorrots, wild populations, who were much talked of, but little known. I wished to study them myself. I took the precaution not to confide this idea to anybody, for then, indeed, people would not have known what name to give my folly.
During the whole of this scene my lieutenant did not utter a word. I had already remarked that when in presence of danger he became dumb, but when he had lost sight of the Igorrots his speech and loquacity returned to him. "Master," said he to me, in a very dissatisfied tone, "how I do regret not having fired directly into the middle of those miscreants!" "And why so?" asked I.
"Here," said I to my lieutenant, "is a good spot for us to spend the night on." He recoiled some paces. "What!" said he; "do you wish to stop here, master?" "Certainly," replied I. "Oh! but you don't see that we are in still more danger here than in the midst of the Igorrots!" "And why, then, are we in danger?" asked I. "Why? why? Do you not know that the Tic-balan dwells in the large balétés.
From that moment there was established between us a very curious sort of mimic conversation, during which I was able to examine at my ease the new race of beings I saw around me. I perceived that the costume of the Igorrots was pretty nearly the same as that of the Tinguians, the ornaments excepted, but their features and physiognomy were quite different.
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