him. They say
that they act thus in order not to use the mailed hand for collecting
from the other in that village, since that would result in war.

_Friendship_. Reconciliation between those who have quarreled,
whether these are individuals or the people of different villages,
is brought about by drawing blood from the arms of both parties,
and each tasting the blood of the other, placed in a shell, sometimes
mixed with a little wine; and such friendship is not to be broken.

_Witches and sorcerers; physicians_. In this land are sorcerers and
witches--although there are also good physicians, who cure diseases
with medicinal herbs; especially they have a remedy for every kind
of poison, for there are most wonderful antidotal herbs. The natives
of this island are very superstitious; consequently, no native will
embark for any voyage in a vessel on which there may be a goat or a
monkey, for they say that they will surely be wrecked. They have a
thousand other omens of this sort. For a few years past they have
had among them one form of witchcraft which was invented by the
natives of Ybalon after the Spaniards had come here. This is the
invocation of certain demons, whom they call Naguined, Arapayan, and
Macbarubac. To these they offer sacrifices, consisting of cocoanut-oil
and a crocodile's tooth; and while they make these offerings, they
invoke the demons. This oil they sell to one another; and even when
they sell it they offer sacrifices and invoke the demon, beseeching
him that the power which he possesses may be transferred to the buyer
of the oil. They claim that the simple declaration that one will die
within a certain time is sufficient to make him die immediately at
that time, unless they save him with another oil, which counteracts the
former. This witchery has done a great deal of harm among the Pintados,
because the demon plays tricks on them. The religious have tried to
remedy this evil, by taking away from them the oil and chastising them.

_Sneezing_. If any one who is going to war or is about to begin any
important undertaking, sneeze on leaving the house, he considers it
a bad omen, and turns back.

_Feasts_. These natives have no feasts that they observe, throughout
the year-save that when the married men go to war, during their
absence the women do not work.

_At the rice-harvest._ Besides these times they set apart seven days
when they begin to till their fields, in which time they neither grind
a