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Show TAMING THE TREE DWELLING FILIPINOS -1- O m il.ze a rate of wild people which ( j Ined 111 ihe lops of nee aihl ran whenever a wlulf man -iparonched, ihem was the duly assigned a few years'. a-.ru to Ueule-ant It. A. Gillmore. a Knl j 11 111.17.00 youth who is bcrvin iu the regu-ar regu-ar army in the 1'lulipptnc Islands. Some' if these people wltc cannibals. "ii the Island of Mindanao, eleven luin-' .Ircd'tnilc south of .Mauda. rigm on Ihe equator, was the place to which Lieuteii-i ant Gilmore and Eovcntccn men iu his( charge w ere seuL To icach the three w ild tribes h- was to teach the ways of .H -, ili.alion it was necessary to cut h path one hundred and lifty miles lon: through a thick jungle. Benching 'he placo whole the twenty thousand wild people lived, the young ollicer established camp. The k.iv ages ran away when they miw the win e iim-ii put up their louts I 'or three days l.iii. tenant Gillmore sat on tlie top of a ontall mountain unarmed" trying to induce Ihe natives o come in kirn, but every advance resulted iu a wild Mtimpedc among the natives. Some even jumped lo their death over cliffs, so afraid weie they of white men. Finally Lieutcn ant Gillmore tliscrrcretl that ".C my one was seen' with tho women and vhlldrcu and was making no effort to steal them, that person was regaidcd as frlendlv Gathering n large number of ,-omeu iiul ilnidrcn about him. Lieutenant Gilluio.i oiieceeded ill reaching some of tin will aien. Able to nuke them understand through a slight knowledge of their di.i leet. the ollicer conveyed the knowledge t., .he savage tlmt he had not cmiie lo .steal their wives and children, but lo be fiicnd with ilicm and teueh them "he ways 01 hi toiiutry. l-'or a unit lb"y recard. i liini with fear, hut, seeing that he made iiio attempt to ti 1 tlie women nnd eh.l dren, the natives began to regard the of-l i ficcr ai a friend. i j 'Vhen lieutenant Gillmore net ihe' Slaves free he nearly produced a revolu-j liou. and it took inauy monibs fur him to iiiiHress upon the nauvev ilm to aptun . .Mid keep numen and ihillrtii in uouoage was wrung j "The irises prrred p oi.e inoilier." Iil Cannibals Who Live m Ihe Island ol Mindanao Tins Is a Practice i Thai Was Slopped Sevcial Tears Ago. ! .nd in a leport- ll was a i.ise t: me survival of the til test Men Irom i.m tribe" would make a raid u another, kill ing off the men and capturing tie women land children. 'Ihe successful tribe would lake ibe women and children back to it? diMii'1 and plaee (hem in slavery. "One of the things ihar nided mo greatly great-ly in my work u is the fiei 'bat not one ol ihe i hrec inbes in the interior of tne, island had u thief or leader. They I xecmed to live in groups, marriage being thc only thing which held the groups to- gethcr The tfibes were known as the H Maiidayans. Divavuns aud Mauguangaus. H In Ihe three tribes there were about -0, H 1 000 pcojde. Wc succeedtsl in getting to H about 10,000 of them. H "Our Ural object was to get the wild H men nnd women to live in settlements U hen we tifet went into the interior lha natives were scattered nil over the island. H You were liable to find one of their homes H in the trees anywhere. They lived "n H game, yams and mountain rice, the women iH j and slnvcs being forced to do all of the work. Each mail had several wives. I Laih wife had n separate piece of ground i'. cultivate. The husband did not per1 H nut his- wives lo work together. W: H -..v(-d them how to raise oilier vegcta- H i i - besides yams and told lhc.ni bow they lf oi 1 1 do their work easier. H riie unlives had not the t lightest Idea f money. If a silver jiiccc fell into tho IH possession of one of the islanders the H uuiuey would he beaten up into some kind H of au ornament. We told llic.ni how IH money could be used to trade for clolhp. H biads and other articles they liked. The H natives had u idea of what trade meant. H and for a lime it was ti dsfllciili task in H i ath tliem huiv to buy and sell.. ;H (u one of the villages, after It had "Wen ,H established, some oue got into one of the 'H houses ami took 3..0 iu silver that lay on jH i l.u.. Besides it there was $oQ0 in bills. ' (July the silver was taken, the iliicf not IH knowing the value of the paper money. jH iJio uaiivej were called together and told H iibout the theft and the wrong in taking H property I hut tlnnged to oilier people. Then a cullei-iioii w9 taken up nn(l tho H NJ ,l) roturued lo the nw-uer. The natives H were told ibat if auother theft ecuurred H aaiu they would be forced to aatail- m paying back Ihe money. No.qther theft ever occurred in thtit village." I As far jt.s koowu. Lieutenant Gillmore IH was thc first white man to vikit Ihetu- IH terior of the island of Mindanao. |