f descended from
Dumaguet dies, a slave is made to die by the same death as that of the
chief. They choose the most wretched slave whom they can find, so that
he may serve the chief in the other world. They always select for this
a slave who is a foreigner, and not a native; for they really are not
at all cruel. They say that the reason for their killing slaves, as
we have said, at the death of any chief is very ancient. According to
their story, a chief called Marapan more than ten thousand years ago,
while easing his body asked a slave of his for some grass with which
to clean himself. The slave threw to him a large stalk of reed-grass,
which seems to have hit the chief on the knee, causing a wound. As he
was at the time a very old man, he died, as they say, from the blow;
but before his death he gave orders that, when he should die, the
slave and all his children should be put to death. From this arose
the custom of killing slaves at the death of a chief.

_Mourning indicated by fasting_. When the father or mother or any near
relative died, they promised to eat no rice until they should seize
some captive in battle. The actual sign of mourning among them was the
wearing of armlets made of bejucos [rattans] which covered the entire
arm, with a similar band around the neck. They drank no pitarrilla,
and their only food was bananas and camotes, until they had either
taken a captive or killed some one, when they ceased their mourning;
it might thus happen that they would eat no rice for a whole year,
and therefore they would be, at the end of that period, very languid
and weak. Sometimes a man determined, soon after a relative's death,
to eat nothing, but to abandon himself to death. But his timaguas
and slaves quickly assembled, and made a collection throughout the
village; bananas were given him for food, and _tuba_ (which is a wine
made from the palm-tree) for drink, so that he should not die. These
gains were the perquisites of the chiefs. This kind of mourning is
called among them _maglahe_.

_Mourning among the women_. The mourning observed by the women they
call _morotal_. It is similar to that of the men, except that the
mourner--instead of going to capture or kill some one before she is
allowed to cease mourning and to eat rice again--embarks in a barangay
with many women; they have one Indian man to steer, one to bail, and
one in the bow. These three Indians are always chosen as being very
valiant men, who ha