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fault on the part of either person the property is divided equally, but the 
mother takes the children. 
If a woman deserts her husband for some other man whom she prefers, 
the new husband must pay a fine, and if he can not be compelled to do so 
the family of the woman must pay back to the husband what he gave 
for her. If the new husband is caught, and is unwilling or unable to 
pay the fine imposed, he may be put to death. 
The dead of the Bataan Negritos are buried in the ground at some dis- 
tance from the houses, after more or less elaborate ceremonies. ‘The 
graves are often fenced in to keep wild hogs away. The relatives of the 
deceased watch the graves for some time and hold occasional feasts near 
them. 
The Zambales Negritos also bury their dead in the gtourid, wrapping 
them in mats and placing them in graves 3 or 4 feet deep. 
Unfortunately, there is little reason to believe that the Negritos can 
ever be civilized. Attempts in this direction heretofore made in the cases 
of individuals have usually ended in lamentable failure. Even children 
who have been taken very young and brought up in christian families 
have shown a strong tendency to return to a wild life. 
Negritos have in many places been greatly imposed upon by the chris- 
tian natives, and in not a few cases their children have been stolen from 
them by the latter, nominally so that they might be christianized but 
really in order that they might be brought up as slaves. Their parents 
have revenged themselves on their civilized neighbors by raiding crops 
and killing or running off cattle. 
Under strong provocation they are aeeeely capable of doing murder, 
but murderous attacks are usually the result of gross mistreatment. 
- For the present, at any rate, all that can be done for these little blacks 
is to protect them from their civilized neighbors and persuade them to 
refrain from making trouble when they are not themselves molested. 
They are a fast disappearing people, but their numbers do not seem to 
be diminishing as rapidly in northern Luzon as in other parts of the 
Archipelago. The total number of Negritos in the Islands is commonly 
estimated at 25,000, but while the whole northeastern coast line and the 
Pacific cordillera of northern Luzon remain unexplored, and while we 
do not even know whether true Negritos exist in the interior of Mindoro, 
. such an estimate is at the best but a mere guess. 
Tribe II. THE ILONGOTS. 
SYNONOMY. 
IBILAOS. Name applied to the Ilongots by the Isinay people of southern 
Nueva Vizcaya. 
ILUNGUT. Synonym of Ilongots. Name applied by the Ilongots of Tayabas 
to themselves. 
ITALONES. ‘The Gaddan name for the /longots. 
LINGOTES. Synonym of Jlongots, 
