Bontoc has not developed the headman - the "principal" of the Spaniard, the "BAK-nan'" of the Benguet Igorot - the one rich man who becomes the pueblo, leader.
"The Bontoc Igorot"
Albert Ernest Jenks
Thus the Negritos were part of the native population of China when, in the twenty-third century B.C., the civilised BAK tribes came into the land."
"A Philological Essay Concerning the Pygmies of the Ancients"
Edward Tyson
Anon, as it bifel, BAK from the ryde Ther came, his sadel hangen doone bisyde, The tyger.
"The Re-echo Club"
Carolyn Wells
