Vic Knew This, And Further Informed Me That The Smaller Species,
Named Here "Talactic," Had The Same Custom Of Plastering Up The Female.
Many evenings, when I had finished my work, I would get Vic to teach
me the Pampanga, dialect, and
Wrote down a large vocabulary of words,
and when some years afterwards I compared them word for word with
other dialects and languages throughout the Malay Archipelago,
I found that, with a few exceptions, there was not the slightest
affinity between them.
CHAPTER 6
A Chapter of Accidents.
A Severe Bout of Malaria in the Wilds - The "Seamy Side" of
Exploration - Unfortunate Shooting of the Chief's Dog - Filipino
Credulity - Stories of the Buquils and their Bearded Women -
Expedition Planned - Succession of CONTRETEMPS - Start for the Buquil
Country - Scenes on the Way - A Negrito Mother's Method of Giving
Drink to Her Baby - Exhausting Marches Amid Striking Scenery - The
Worst Over - A Bolt from the Blue - Negritos in a Fury - Violent
Scenes at a Negrito Council of War - They Decide on Reprisals -
Further Progress Barred in Consequence - Return to Florida Blanca.
As I mentioned before, this was the unhealthy season in the
Philippines, and Vic assured me that these lower mountains were even
more unhealthy than the flat country. I myself soon arrived at a
similar conclusion, as a regular epidemic of malaria now set in among
my pigmy friends, the Negritos, and the old chief told us that his
favourite son was dying with it; next my neighbour and his wife were
prostrated with it, and when they had slightly recovered, they left
their hut and returned to Florida Blanca.
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