Vilanes (16).
These people, the prey of every warlike tribe, and even of the Tagacaolos, live on the summit of the mountains of Buhian, to the east and west of the lake of that name.
Some of them extend as far south as the eastern shore of the Gulf of Sarangani, and they people the two islands of Sarangani and Balut.
They are short and thickset, with little agility.
Montano describes them as having flat, broad noses, underhung jaws, and receding foreheads, giving them an appearance of stupidity.
Father Urios, however, writing about the Vilanes of Sarangani and Balut, gives a more favourable description of them. He says they are docile and industrious, and more active and intelligent than the Moros Sanguiles, who live on these same islands.
He thought them easy to convert, for they have no religious system of their own; but they believe in God, and in the immortality of the soul.
Although living so near the Moros, they have not adopted any of their religious ideas.
The Sarangani Vilanes dress like the Bagobos, and handle the lance and the bow, and are good shots in hunting game.