Cordillera Central

The tribes in northern Luzon.

In northern Luzon, in the great Cordillera Central, there are many of those primitive tribes.

These people are preeminently mountaineers.

They prefer the high, cold, and semi-arid crests and valleys of the loftiest ranges.

An expedition of 3,200 men was formed in Cebu, and in April 1828 the campaign took place, which resulted in the defeat of the rebels and then settlement in the Christian towns.

The new provinces of Benguet and Abra It is proper to notice also the slow advances of Spanish authority, which began to be made about this time among the heathen tribes of northern Luzon.

These fierce and powerful tribes occupy the entire range of the Cordillera Central.

Missionary effort in the latter half of the 18th century had succeeded in partly Christianizing the tribes along the river Magat in Nueva Vizcaya, but the fierce headhunting hillmen remained unsubdued and unchristianized.

The tribes in northern Luzon.

In northern Luzon, in the great Cordillera Central, there are many of those primitive tribes.

These people are preeminently mountaineers.

They prefer the high, cold, and semi-arid crests and valleys of the loftiest ranges.

The new provinces of Benguet and Abra.

It is proper to notice also the slow advances of Spanish authority, which began to be made about this time among the heathen tribes of northern Luzon.

These fierce and powerful tribes occupy the entire range of the Cordillera Central.

Missionary effort in the latter half of the 18th century had succeeded in partly Christianizing the tribes along the river Magat in Nueva Vizcaya, but the fierce headhunting hillmen remained unsubdued and unchristianized.

It is proper to notice also the slow advances of Spanish authority, which began to be made about this time among the heathen tribes of northern Luzon.

These fierce and powerful tribes occupy the entire range of the Cordillera Central.

Missionary effort in the latter half of the 18th century had succeeded in partly Christianizing the tribes along the river Magat in Nueva Vizcaya, but the fierce head-hunting hillmen remained unsubdued and un-Christianized.

Between 1823 and 1829 the mission of Pidigan, under an Augustinian friar, Christianized some thousands of the Tinginians of the river Abra.

Then began one of the most exciting pursuits in recent wars.

The chase never slackened except in those repeated instances when for the moment the trail of the Filipino general was lost.

From Candón, Aguinaldo turned eastward through the comandancias of Lepanto and Bontoc into the wild Igorot country of the Cordillera Central.

The trail into Lepanto leads over the lofty mountains through the precipitous Tila Pass.