Cornelis De Witt Willcox

The Head Hunters of Northern Luzon Cornelis De Witt Willcox

Highlanders of Northern Luzon.-Meaning of the word "Igorot."-Trails.-The Mountain Province.-Nature of the country. It is to be regretted that the people of the United States should in general show so little interest in the Philippine Islands. This lack of interest may be due to lack of knowledge; if this be so, then it is the duty of those better informed to do all that lies in their power to develop the interest now regrettably absent.
Be this as it may, it is assumed here that most of our people do not know that a very large fraction of the inhabitants of the Philippines consists of the so-called wild men, and that of these the greatest group or collection is found in the mountains of Northern Luzon.