Even the paddles and oars were decorated, while in the more profusely decorated banka were a harp, guitars, accordions, and a trumpet made from a carabao horn.
Suddenly a thundering roar was heard, such that the women screamed and covered their ears; it was the ex-theological student blowing with all the strength of his lungs on the tambuli, or carabao horn.
At times a heavy cart drawn by a slow and indifferentcarabao would appear on the dusty road over which beat the brilliant sunlight of the tropics.
During the day the regiment received a small quantity of supplies by Filipino and carabao trains and by airdrop from Navy planes.
A carabao is a domesticated native water buffalo that is used extensively in the Philippines as a beast of burden.
It was not long before Juan saw a lighted house in the direction toward which the carabao was going.
The wagons were filled up to the top of the covering, and the carabao were much wearied by the drawing of the heavy loads.
Let the carabao that brought you rest before you go back to the country.
Juan's order that the carabao be gathered together was not obeyed by his overseer.
His success in rounding up the carabao was due to much aid.
Every time I put the carabao into the corral, they get away.
Tambúgig lalug nga kumpay ang kábaw, Give thecarabao some hay for fodder.
Pasabsába ang kábaw kay piyak kaáyug tiyan, Put the carabao out to pasture because its flank is very thin.
Bunulun kaáyu ning kabáwa nga idáru, This carabao is too sluggish to use for plowing.
The wild carabao is a formidable antagonist, hard to stop and a vicious fighter after he is once wounded.
You will find it easy and safe to travel over them, and when you want to go to market, your carabao will be able to pack three or four times as much as he can now carry over bad paths.
Its skin looked so exactly like that of a carabao that uncharitable persons had suggested that it was an artifact.
I had perched in trees, devoured by mosquitoes, and with hard branches cutting into my flesh, waiting for some pugnacious bull to come out and fight a tame carabao fastened at a convenient distance from my hiding place, all to no purpose.
It was tastefully ornamented, at the height of the floor, with a very striking frieze of alternating human skulls and carabao skulls.
On this cart is frequently piled two tons, which the carabao pulls easily.
The Carabao or Water Buffalo is the Filipinos' Chief Beast of Burden.
When the family has a horse or cow or carabao the house is ten feet from the ground, and these animals are stabled underneath.
The carabao has little hair and its nose bears a strong resemblance to that of the hippopotamus.
A few victorias may be seen on the bridge, but what causes most of the congestion is the carabao cart, hauling the heavy freight.
The Water Jar is Like the Spanish-American Olla] [Illustration: PLATE XXIII The Carabao Cart in the Philippines.
The animal is singed in the fire and the crisped hair rubbed off with sticks and hands, after which it is cut up and boiled, and then further cut up and eaten as is the carabao meat.
This is the only use to which the Bontoc carabao is put as a power in industry.
Carabao The people of Bontoc say that when Lumawig came to Bontoc they had no domestic carabaos -- that those they now have were originally purchased, before the Spaniards came, from the Tinguian of Abra Province.
To-day, as formerly, the live pig and hog and pieces of pork and carabao meat are used a great deal in barter.
There are a few large, shallow Chinese iron boilers in the area, used especially for boiling sugar, evaporating salt in Mayinit, and for cooking carabao or large quantities of hog on ceremonial occasions.
Many men followed from the house one brought the coffin cover and another the carabao horns -- but the women and children remained behind, as is their custom at burials.
One week in April a Bontoc Igorot traded a carabao to an Ilokano of Lepanto Province for a copper ganza, the customary way of purchasing ganzas, and the following week another Bontoc man sold a carabao for money to another Lepanto Ilokano.
Sometimes large pieces of raw carabao meat are laid on high racks near the dwelling and "dried" in the sun.
The wild carabao is extremely vicious, and is killed only when forty or fifty men combine and hunt it with spears.
They employ a hollow section of carabao horn, cut off at both ends and about 8 inches in length; it is called "kong-ok'.
Others own five and six each, and again a single carabao may be the joint property of two and even six individuals.
The natives use principally thecarabao and the native cattle, which look like small Jersey cows but are not very good.
The carabao did not mind it in the least but continued tranquilly on his way.
It is said that the carabao never shows this hostility toward the natives.
A peculiarity of the law is such that should a man shoot a dangerous carabao to protect his own life he would have to pay for the animal he killed.
Since the carabao was larger than the cow, the skin on the cow's neck has been loose ever since, because the two friends were separated and could never exchange clothes again.
He fills his cart with red earth, and hitches his carabao to it.
He went out and killed his fat carabao and dried its hide.
Many years ago, when the people of the world were still few in number and the animals took the place of servants, an old man bought a cow and a carabao from his neighbor.
After the monkey and the dog had departed, the carabao began to fry the meat.
For an answer, the carabaomade a furious attack on him.
The carabao was rescued, but its tail was broken off short by a sudden pull of Suan.
When the carabao was convinced at the seventh hill that he had been defeated, he became so angry that he kicked the turtle.
Now the carabao was persuaded; and he said, "All right, only give me three days to get ready for the race.
The carabao noticed the change, but he could not comprehend it.
In return for this kindness, the god gave each of the animals a dress: to the carabao he gave one of gold; and to the cow, one of bronze.
The carabao answered, "We would better run a little farther, for perhaps our master is already in pursuit of us.
He could eat one cavan of rice and one carabao daily.
The agreement between the turtle and the carabaowas that the race should extend over seven hills.
Carabao Four posts, one whip, two fans, and two bolos.
Carabao The head points, the ears move, the legs change position.
As she sat there pondering what she should do, a carabao [25] came along, and thinking that she would ride a while she climbed up on its back.
The common way to pound rice is to place a bundle of the grain on the ground on a dried carabao hide and pound it with a pestle to loosen the heads from the straw.
The carabao was surprised that the shell could keep up with him.
The Carabao and the Shell Tinguian One very hot day, when a carabao went into the river to bathe, he met a shell and they began talking together.
He was able to buy ten carabao and with these he plowed his fields.
Kadayadawan was very much interested and quickly combed his hair and oiled it, put on his striped coat [26] and belt, and went with the carabao to the orange tree.
The skin on her wrinkled face was as tough as a carabao hide, and her long arms with fingers pointing back from the wrist were horrible to look at.
Cabildo of Domayco, the envied owner of this jar, has refused great sums offered for its purchase, and though men from other tribes come bringing ten carabao at one time, they cannot tempt him to sell.
You are very slow," said the carabao to the shell.
There they came to a large orange tree, and the carabao told her to eat some of the luscious fruit while he fed on the grass nearby.
After thecarabao had gone a long distance he stopped and called, "Shell!
The only possible exception to this statement is the mention of a carabaosled on p.
Aponitolau and Aponibolinayen riding on a carabao p.
Two men agree to hunt carabaothe following morning.
The grandmother gets horses to kick the stone, carabao to hook it, and chickens to peck it, but without result.
This is repeated many times until at last the carabaofalls dead.
He runs to get his friends, and they find the spot trampled like a carabao wallow.
A carabao and a shell agree to race along the river.
The carabaoruns swiftly, then pauses to call "shell.
Is carried across by a carabao which at once informs its master of the girl's presence.
The best for you, son of alan, is to stay at the place where the carabao pass by.
If you cannot eat all of thecarabao which I give you, you cannot have the oranges which your wife wishes to eat.
I am sorrowful, for I cannot get the oranges which Aponibolinayen wishes to eat until I eat this carabao which Gawigawen feeds to me.
Not long after she reached the ocean and she sat down on a log and a carabaocame along.
After the tikgi left Ligi had the headache again, so he did not put the rice in the carabao sled, but went home in a hurry.
The next day Aponitolau said to Aponibolinayen, "I am going to see our sugar cane, to see if any carabao have gone there to spoil it, for it is the best to chew.
When Gawigawen went to Aponibolinayen at night she changed to oil, and she did that every night, and they put the carabao hides under her mat so the oil would not drop to the ground.
She called the carabao and they hooked it, but only broke their horns; then she called the chickens and they pecked it, but could not open.
A broad river swept rapidly by, and along the banks wild carabao rolled and splashed, making queer diminutive sounds, not in keeping with their ungainly size.
A lumbering carabao swayed lazily forward, and on each side walked four stalwart Moros, ever heedful of the dignified figure astride the beast.
Slowly the willing carabao was turned homeward, and the aged monarch sorrowfully gave up hope of sending succor to Piang that night.
From these heights, they looked out over a vast stretch of open country, where the deep, wavy meadow-grass glistened like gold; and pastured there were herds of cows and carabao and many horses.
Juan went out and after hunting for a long time hid it in a carabao wallow, and of course when they went to fetch it again nothing was left but the sack.
He walked on until he reached a very large meadow, full of long wavy grass, where there were many horses andcarabao and other animals.
They shot over a bridge, tore through a dark village, rounded a corner at top speed and took the grassed shoulder of the road as the little chauffeur twisted the wheel to avoid a bewildered carabao which blocked the middle of the highway.
The picture shown opposite is a good representation of the better class of fairly well-to-do Filipino people; they are rich if they can afford as many carabao as stand here.
Some are of the size and pattern of an old-fashioned corn cutter, handles of carved wood or carabao horn; sometimes made with a fork-like tip and waved with saw teeth edge.
The next morning we watched with interest the carabao as they were taken from the muddy pools in which they had found shelter for the night.
Carabao sometimes go crazy, and when they do, they tread down everything in their way.
One does not mind them more than the carabao in some muddy pond, and one is just about as cleanly as the other.
When a large drove of carabao are massed together it seems inevitable that they shall injure each other with their great horns, six or eight feet long but fortunately they are curved back.
The animal that is most essential in every way is thecarabao or water buffalo.
Flutes were made of bamboo stalks; drums out of carabao hide stretched over a cylindrical piece of bamboo.
The preciouscarabao is carefully guarded; at night it is kept in the lower part of the house or in a little pond close by.
For days before the natives were busy making long candles out of carabao tallow.
A puffingcarabao comes down the long street, dragging the heavy stalks of newly-cut bamboo.
A carabao is used for this work, as it is impossible to mire him even in the deepest mud.
Carabao drays are hauling fragrant cargoes of tobacco and Manila hemp, while over the gangplank runs a chain of men, gutting the warehouse of its merchandise.
Their coats of mail are made of carabaohorn cut into small plates, or of pieces of rattan.
The street was full of carabao carts, yoked to their uncomfortable cattle.
The difficulty in the carabao event was to stick on to the broad, clumsy animal, during the gallop around the course.
This whistle was the signal for the small boys to extract the reluctant carabaofrom the cool, sticky wallow, and yoke him to the creaking bamboo cart.
When a snakebite can be cured by a burnt piece of carabao horn, or when the leaves or bits of paper stuck upon the temple will relieve the fever or the dysentery, what is the use of drugs and medicines and things that people do not understand?
On a carabao (worth usually about eighty pesos) this amounts to thirty pesos a year.
Thus, a man borrows a carabao, paying P30 as the interest in advance for one year, and if at the end of the year he cannot repay the carabao he makes a second payment, or unud, as interest in advance on the following year.
He returns through Kiangan, however, and his carabao is seized by A, a Kianganite.
Dumalilon of Tupplak borrowed a carabao of Gumangan.
A and his friends stop the agent and take the carabao away from him, telling him to inform B that the carabao will be delivered to him when the fine is paid.
The regular commission for this service is ten pesos, the agent to deliver a livingcarabao to the principal, and to be responsible for the value if the carabao die on the route.
C sends a go-between to pay B thirty pesos, telling him of A's debt, and informing him that he must get his carabaoback from A.
If it be intended to repay the carabao within three months, the interest in advance is ten pesos, and is called baloblad.
After several fruitless attempts to collect, C seizes a carabao belonging to B, a co-villager of A.
Pagadut, the son of Guminigin, to whom demand was presented for the payment of the carabao claimed to be yet due, refused to pay this debt.
Or suppose that an agent of B's is bringing a carabao up from Nueva Vizcaya, and that the agent has to travel through A's village.
Here I am giving for tanong my carabao so that my body will be cured if you made my body sick.
You, the souls of the dead in the pasture lands of the carabao, you are given these pieces of liver that you may know that the carabao has been sacrificed.
In this respect, as well as in many others, the carabao is a very different animal from the pig.
On this occasion, the carabao was tied to a stake in a small swale and I nerved myself to look on.
On the other hand, we did see the oddest possible ferry: a bundle or raft of bamboo, with chairs on top, towed across stream by a carabao regularly hitched up to it and getting over himself by swimming.
The figures are identified as a a deer, b horse, c carabao calf, d man.
When several jars or dishes have been prepared, they are placed in carabao dung or other slow burning material and fired.
All net work is done by the man who, for this purpose, employs a mesh stick and a needle of bamboo or carabao horn (Fig.
Imitation carabao yokes are much prized, and the children pass many hours serving as draught animals or drivers.
Over these the intestines of a carabao are drawn, and the whole is wrapped tightly with cord and covered with beeswax.
Carabao are used for drawing the sleds and for ploughing and harrowing in the lower fields.
Flat boards with cords attached become "carabao sleds," and in these immense loads of imaginary rice are hauled to the granaries.
Dogs, pigs, chickens, and carabao appear to have been long in the possession of this tribe.
The carabao or water buffalo (nuang) is the most prized and valuable animal possessed by this tribe.
From the day of its birth, the young carabaois taken possession of by the children, who will fondle and tease it, ride on its back, or slide off over its head or tail.
Wild carabao are fairly abundant in the mountains.
Upon his return, "Carabao Bill" reported that he found the enemy.
Here is where it tried the steel of "Carabao Bill.
Carabao Bill," from his dress and manner, might be said to be a typical United States Army officer.
He had paid for the animal, and told the four sailors who were with him to bring it to the camp; but the carabao was so wild that they could not manage it.
This looked suspicious, but whatever happened, Bontekoe must have his carabao to be eaten on the trip across the Strait of Sunda.
Lightfoot imagines that he has discovered a wonderful confirmation of his views in the word "likewise" which here occurs (vol.
I exhort you not to show an unseasonable good-will towards me.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "carabao" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
