Abstract
This chapter details John Early's journey to Luzon's Cordillera region. After volunteering for the Kalinga teaching assignment, Early booked passage on the SS Bustamante, a small steamer that ferried people and goods along Luzon's west coast. From the major coastal city of Vigan, he was ordered to make his way through the Ilocos plain to Cervantes, the town that straddled the two worlds of the lowlanders and the Cordillera's Igorots. The chapter describes how Lieutenant John S. Manning hosted Early for six weeks as the wide-eyed foreign teacher tried to take in the surrounding culture. He was impressed by the prevailing peace that the Philippine Constabulary had established, and he also closely watched civilian Americans who had taken up residence in Cervantes. The chapter also looks at Early's journey with Lieutenant W. D. Harris, the only officer in the entire Kalinga area and who was assigned to escort him. Harris's and Early's journey from Cervantes to Kalinga wound through the Bontoc Igorot territory, which by the fall of 1906 included a few American missionaries. As the weeks in Lubuagan passed, Early began teaching the Kalingan children during the day, then used the evenings to hold classes for the Bontoc constabulary soldiers.
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