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—IXHABITAXTS OF THE PHILIPPINES. 257the dafu, each of whom, with the reservation of the homage due to his suzerain,became projjrietor of the hmds conquered and wealth plundered by his retainers.The tao maraliai/, or " good men," that is, the free warriors, accompanied them ontheir predatory expeditions, while the sacopo, or lack-land class, were reduced to astate of serfdom. Like the Norman knights they issued forth in search of adventure,to do battle against the infidel in the name of the true faith, or to acquirerenown by carrying off women, slaves, and treasure. In the early years of theFig. 11.3.Ifuoao Ixdi.vn.sixteenth century they were beginning to overrun the Philippme Archipelago,and but for the intervention of the Spaniards there can be no doubt that theTagals -woidd at present be Mohammedans. Piracy in these waters was notentirely destroyed till the latter half of the present century by the Spanish occupationof the Mindanao seaboard and the Sulu Archipelago.The pagan populations, often confounded by the Spaniards under the generalname of Igorrotcs, still form a considerable section of the inhabitants both in Luzonand Mindanao. The Igorrotes, properly so called, dwell cast of the Ilocos, in theVOL. xiv, .s