I am a fishing boat owner who live in the remote island of Sitangkai in Southern Philippines. This island was near the sea border of Indonesia and my boats fished at the Celebes Sea sometimes intruding into Indonesian waters. When one of my boat landed on the remote island of Pataguan, territory of Indonesia, the crew stumbled upon a remnants of ancient civilization atop the hill of the island. Out of curiosity and sense of adventurist spirit in me, I decided to visit the place.
It was an island of Hobbits. They were like us, Malay-Asian in facial, but they were all stocky and short, just four feet tall. And they spoke a dialect only my native Sibutu islander crew can interpret.
We gifted them with sacks of dried fish and they became friendly to us. They toured as on their sacred burial ground, atop the hill. The burial ground is an underground labyrinth of caves and tunnels. When we reached the main altar, we were astonished on what we saw. On the altar lies two mummies of hobbits. One hobbit was a woman whose body was wrapped by skin of animals. The other one was clothed with soft metallic sheet all over his body. His face is not of human but resembles to that of a merman, mentioned in our legends. He has green skin on his face, on his bald head and on his large ears.
Later I learned from my crew that they were the remnants of extinct hybrid human species called homo floresiensis that roam the mainland of Celebes Island, 15,000 years ago as stated by their oral history. They said that the island was their sacred ground because it was the epicenter of their Hobbit origin and civilization I was also informed that the revered two Hobbit mummies were their original first ancestors whom they believed weld great supernatural power until now. And they prayed on these mummies.
From the oral account of Kalali Nadu of Sibuto Island, Philippines.
Pataguan means depository in our modern language.
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