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Title: The Head Hunters of Northern Luzon From Ifugao to Kalinga
A Ride Through the Mountains of Northern Luzon With an
Appendix on the Independence of the Philippines

Author: Cornelis De Witt Willcox

Release Date: October 12, 2005 [EBook #12970]

Language: English

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The Head Hunters of Northern Luzon
From Ifugao to Kalinga
A Ride Through the Mountains of Northern Luzon
With an Appendix on the Independence of the Philippines

By

Cornelis De Witt Willcox,

Lieutenant-Colonel U.S. Army,
Professor United States Military Academy,
Officier d'Academie.

Kansas City, Mo., U.S.A.
Franklin Hudson Publishing Co.,
1912.

Copyright 1912 By Franklin Hudson Publishing Company.

To
J.G.H.

TABLE OF CONTENTS.

LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS

PREFACE

CHAPTER I

Highlanders of Northern Luzon.--Meaning of the word
_Igorrote_.--Trails.--The Mountain Province.--Nature of the country.

CHAPTER II

Annual inspection of the mountain tribes.--We set out from
Baguio.--Pangasinan Province.--Agno River.--Reception by the people.

CHAPTER III

Padre Juan Villaverde.--His great trail.--The beginning of the
mountain journey.--Nozo.

CHAPTER IV

Early start.--Pine forest.--Vegetation.--Rest at Amugan.--The
_gansa_--Bone.

CHAPTER V

Aritao.--Bubud.--Dupax.--Start for Campote.

CHAPTER VI

The Ilongots and their country.--Efforts of our Government to reach
these people--The forest trail.--Our first contact with the wild man.

CHAPTER VII

School at Campote--Our white pony, and the offer made for