Where Silver Is Unknown and Arcadian Simplicity Still Reigns.
Manila, May 25.
The most primitive people of the entire Philippine archipelago dwell on the Island of Babuyan, some 60 miles north of the Island of Luzon, according to members of Governor' General Wood's party who visited that group recently. The total population of the Island 71, composed of 14 married men, the same number of married women, 20 adult unmarried women, 2% children of both sexes and four old women, Money is unknown among the people, with the exception of Bernardino Rosal, the head man, who treasures afew silver pesos jas a reminder of his former life jin Luzon. Rosal is priest, judge, legislator, and executive all' in one. He officiates at funerals, mar-nages and births and adjusts all {tribal differences.
Dr, Pacifico Laygo, an assistant the Philippine Health Service, who was a member of the governor general's party, landed _on Babuyan Island and explored the volano which recently was in "From the top of the niountain the water's edge the once exruberant vegetation was burnt off Jand boulders, ashes and lava cover ithe mountain side," said Dr. Layigo, "A new crater appears to have [formed from which steam is continuously rising. The advisability of transferring the inhabitants to the mainland of Luzon was discussed with the islanders but they. decided that they preferred to: remain on Babuyan, although most of their corn and carnate fields were destroyed by the eruption. They were terrorized by the flow of rocks, ashes and steam from the voleano but they could not be per-sanded to leave the island, their only desire being to get to the northern end of the island where they believed they would be safe from future' eruptions."—Reuter's Pacific Service.
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