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A JOURNEY OVER THE SIERRA MADRE
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the villagers as they moved about in lazy fashion, smoking cigarettes and doing the little work which seemed necessary. They were now in the territory inhabited by Guinaanes, a tribe not so dark as the Negritos and taller. This tribe numbers probably ten thousand souls, and it is said that they were among the last to take up arms in the rebellion against Spain and, later on, against the United States. They were deadly enemies to the warlike Igorrotes, who inhabit the seacoast to the westward, and could not be induced to fight side by side with them under Aguinaldo or any other Filipino leader.