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the use of circular casting-nets, which they occasionally obtain from their 
civilized neighbors. In hunting they employ dogs, and often, also, nets 
into which deer and wild hogs are driven in order that they may be 
_ lanced while entangled. They are very skillful in the use of the bow and 
arrow and in their hunting employ poisoned arrows which bring large 
game down very quickly, without rendering the flesh unfit for eating. 
Snakes, lizards, frogs, and certain insects and insect larve are prized by 
them as articles of food. 
Most of the Negritos do not practice agriculture at all. A few of the 
individuals who have come in contact with the civilized natives, plant 
camotes (yams) and squashes, and a still smaller number a limited 
amount of mountain rice. Little or no cultivation is given to the crops 
when planted, and it often happens that by harvest time their owners 
have wandered off through the mountains to some point many miles 
distant, thus losing the fruits of their labor. 
In very rare instances small groups of Negritos settle in some par- 
ticular locality and actually cultivate fields. In such cases they usually 
build houses which, while but feeble imitations of those of their civilized 
neighbors, are a distinct improvement over their ordinary huts. 
Dogs and chickens are their only domestic animals, and they have 
few of the latter. 
They are very found of music, although their instruments are of a 
primitive sort. They make “jew’s-harps” and flutes from bamboo, but 
their principal musical instrument is the copper timbrel imported from 
China and known throughout northern Luzon as the gansa. (PI. LIT, 
fig. 4.) Bamboo violins and rude guitars are sometimes seen among 
them, but dance music is almost always furnished by gansas alone. I 
have seen men dancing on their knees and playing gansas at the same 
time. (Pl. LI, fig. 4.) The most characteristic Negrito dance is 
the so-called circle dance, in which men, women, and boys group them- 
selves about one or two of the older inhabitants of the settlement; each 
person hooks two or three fingers into the clout or waistband of the skirt 
of the individual in front of him and the whole company then begins 
slowly to move in a circle with much stamping of feet and some shouting 
and singing, the latter being usually performed with the mouth covered 
by the hand. This circle dance, which is indulged in at funeral and 
wedding feasts and on other important occasions, is often kept up until a 
dusty path has been worn through the sod. (Pl. LII, figs. 1 and 2.) 
Various obscene dances of the Negritos have been described by travelers. 
Many of these tales are obviously untrue, as are all stories to the effect 
that these people go wandering through the forest in a state of absolute 
nudity; but Dr. Thos. R. Marshall, formerly Chief Health Inspector of 
the Philippine Islands, has described to me in detail an obscene dance 
participated in by one woman and two men which he witnessed at night 
in the mountains of Zambales. His word is above suspicion. I have 
