The Odyssey of the Philippine Commission . y to visit him, and making prep-arations for the feast, correspondence was dis-covered showing him to be the insurgent presidentof Bacolor, a large adjoining town. He sent wordfrom jail, however, to repair to his house, wherethe Negritos would be waiting for us. His wife andson received us quite hospitably and seemed littleconcerned about the fate of the head of the wife remarked that if he was guilty it servedhim right to be in jail. The incident illustrates howabnormal is the situation here, and how impossibleit is to know the real thought
The Odyssey of the Philippine Commission . y to visit him, and making prep-arations for the feast, correspondence was dis-covered showing him to be the insurgent presidentof Bacolor, a large adjoining town. He sent wordfrom jail, however, to repair to his house, wherethe Negritos would be waiting for us. His wife andson received us quite hospitably and seemed littleconcerned about the fate of the head of the wife remarked that if he was guilty it servedhim right to be in jail. The incident illustrates howabnormal is the situation here, and how impossibleit is to know the real thoughts of these people fromanything they profess. Only five Negritos had been secured, three menand two women, as they are very timid. They aresmall of stature, and though their hair is kinky, theyhave none of the features of the African negro. Theyare inoffensive and have given our soldiers notrouble. They performed a weird sort of dance tothe music of a bamboo band, and also gave somerather remarkable exhibitions with a bow and arrow, [ 130]. Negritos in the Forest
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