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Updated: May 31, 2025
The effect of this return is especially noticeable in the vicinity of Caraga where as late as 1885 there were 596 Mandaya converts. Several attempts were also made to colonize the Mandaya near the mouths of the Tagum and Hijo rivers, but the restlessness of the natives or the hostility of the Moro was always sufficient to cause the early break up of the new settlements.
In former times it was the custom for a victorious war party to place the corpses of their dead, together with their weapons, at the roots of a baliti tree. The reason for this custom seems now to be lost. Busau. Among the Mandaya at the north end of Davao Gulf this spirit is also known as Tuglinsau, Tagbusau, or Mandangum.
Many of this division have recently emigrated to the coast and are now found at the north and east part of Davao Gulf. A name by which are designated those Mandaya who live in the heavily forested mountains skirting the coast. Very little is known of this people, but from the information now at hand it seems that they should be classed as a branch of the Mandaya.
All of these are unknown to the Mandaya of the Pacific coast. While in the Salug river valley Governor Bolton witnessed a most interesting ceremony which, so far as the writer is aware, is quite unknown to the balance of the tribe. His quotation follows: "One religious dance contained a sleight of hand performance, considered by the people as a miracle, but the chiefs were evidently initiated.
Maxey mentions the use of poisoned weapons in the neighborhood of Cateel, but the Mandaya of the south seem to be entirely ignorant of this custom, Maxey's account of the preparation of the poison is as follows: "The poison is, according to the writer's informant, prepared as follows: A long bamboo is cut and carried to a tree called camandag.
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