Bontoc in the Northern Philippines and its Interesting Inhabitants: Some Rough Work in a Motor Car By Anrnur Siu The following travel entitled Bre Arthur Sime article & intended to form "chapter in and iivdventures ta Many Lands ends subsequently to. publish. left Baguio, the mountain health report of the Philippines at 1.15 Pam, on Wednesday September 7, in a small motor ear to visit Bontec game 160 miles away in the mountain province in the northern part of the Island of Luzon. Bontoc is the heart of the head-hunting Igorote tribes and where there are towns! that existed for thousands of years. before the American Continent was} discovered. The people live in the same natural state as they did hundreds of generations ago -and very few white people have ever reached, Bontoc. The people in the hotel in Baguio including an Amer-jean ex-Governor of Benguet Province whom I met there, a Afr. Kane, and.who knew the route I had to travel over very well and knew the: difficulties I had to overcome to get there and back as the roads were in a very bad condition owing to its being nearly the end of the rainy' season, seemed dubious as to whether!
We now commenced to go up the Maun range of mountain which were very high. The road had now become very bad, there being deep ruts and holes in places caused by recent typhoons and rains and which made such rough going that I was very often thrown from my seat right! up to the hood of the ear which was for very good reasons, sometimes with auch violence that my head was hurt against its wooden framework, although all the time T was hanging on with all my strength to the side of the ear. At one of these violent jumps T was thrown up with such violence that I got a nasty cut above the right eye which partially stunned me for a few minutes. At another of these jumps my nose was badly hit. Then when we got to the top] of this range of mountains the going down the other side seemed even worse than going up them, and I was thrown up every minute of s0 to the hood of the ear and coming down A Grow INMADITANTS oF Bowtoc
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