[4] The very day that I wrote this, the ownership of a field was settled by a wrestling match. An Ifugao some time before pawned a field to a christianized Ifugao. This worthy had the temerity to sell the field. Although the pawner would have surely been sustained in his right had he appealed to the lieutenant-governor, nevertheless, he was so confident, being in the right, that he would not lose, that he consented to settle the ownership by a wrestling match. He won. The christianized Ifugao may possibly now have more faith in the tenet of his former religion that the ancestral spirits uphold him who is in the right.
[5] He may gratuitously add an insult by implanting a few of them in a pile of fecal matter.
[6] The villages of Pindungan and Ambabag are less than a mile distant from each other.
[7] The Nagakaran people claim that only five out of forty of the first expedition returned.
[8] This was the usual method of treating kidnapped persons. It is interesting to note an almost parallel practice on the part of the Allies in the present war. When prisoners are taken, the buttons are cut off their clothing, in order to keep their hands engaged during the march to the rear.
Appendices
Appendix 1: Ifugao Reckoning of Relationship
All Ifugao words denoting relationships except the words for father and mother are common in gender.