The inhabitants of all the settlements in the Agúsan Valley except Novela, Rosario, the towns south of Buai, the towns within the Banuáon habitat, and a few settlements of pagan Manóbos on the upper Umaíam, Argáwan, and Ihawán, Wá-wa and Maitum are Manobó conquistas.
On the eastern slope of the Pacific Cordillera in the vicinity of San Miguel (Tágo River), on the Marihátag and Oteiza Rivers there are several hundred Manóbo conquistas. The towns up the Hinatuán and Bislig Rivers are made up of both Manóbo and Mandáya conquistas.
THE MANDÁYA CONQUISTAS
In the Agúsan Valley the towns on the Sulibáo River and perhaps on the Adlaian River are made up of Mandáya conquistas for the most part. These Mandáyas evidently worked in from the Hinatuán River for one reason or another, perhaps to avoid missionary activity on the east coast or to escape from Moro raids.
On the Pacific coast we find Mandáya conquistas to a greater or less extent in nearly all the municipalities and barrios from Tándag to Mati, with the exception of such towns as have been formed by immigration of Bisáyas from Bohol and other places. There can be no doubt but that in former years the Mandáyas covered the whole Pacific slope from Tándag to Mati, for we still find recently Christianized Mandáyas in Kolon and Alba on the Tágo River and in Kagwáit and Bakolod on the Kagwáit River. The inhabitants of these eastern towns are not known by the designation of conquistas, but assume the name and status of Bisáyas and are not so dependent on the older Christians as are the conquistas of the Agúsan Valley who are called conquistas and treated as inferiors by the older Christians.
I think that from Liñgig to Mati all the barrios, both of the coast and in the hinterland, are made up of Mandáyas that have been Christianized since 1877.
THE MAMÁNUA CONQUISTAS
These Mamánua conquistas live in the vicinity of Anao-aon and Malimono' on the northeast coast; in San Roque and San Pablo, also on Lake Maínit; on the River Asiga, a tributary of the River Jabonga; and somewhere up the Lanusa River on the east coast.