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Updated: July 24, 2025
Perhaps no one who owned less than a hundred slaves was able to secure a home within its borders. Here still are to be seen stately mansions and among the names of the owners are those of Lyde, Lee, Wrumph, Bibb, Youngblood and Reynolds.
The people said it was the likeness of their god." Lieutenant J. R. Youngblood, when near the headwaters of the Agusan River, saw in front of a chief's house "a rude wooden image of a man which seemed to be treated with some religious awe and respect." Mr. Robert F. Black, a missionary residing in Davao, writes that "the Mandaya have in their homes wooden dolls which may be idols."
Lieutenant Youngblood gives the following description of the people and dwellings seen by him near the upper waters of the Agusan river: "The people seemed to be living in an atmosphere of fear as far as intercourse with the world outside their crater-like valley was concerned.
Let me see: there was Ben Thornburg, and Beck Jolly, and Squire Bell, and Horace Bixby, and Major Downing, and John Stevenson, and Billy Gordon, and Jim Brady, and George Ealer, and Billy Youngblood all A 1 alligator pilots. THEY could tell alligator water as far as another Christian could tell whiskey. Read it? Ah, COULDN'T they, though!
Let me see: there was Ben Thornburg, and Beck Jolly, and Squire Bell, and Horace Bixby, and Major Downing, and John Stevenson, and Billy Gordon, and Jim Brady, and George Ealer, and Billy Youngblood all A 1 alligator pilots. THEY could tell alligator water as far as another Christian could tell whiskey. Read it? Ah, COULDN'T they, though!
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