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rulers as demoniacal beings, evil spirits, or at least something to 

 be dreaded. " If a child cries, it is hushed by the exclamation, 

 Castilal (Spaniard); if a white man approaches a native dwelling, 

 the watchword always is Castilal and the children hasten to 

 retreat from the dreadful object." 



By the administration the natives are classed in three social 

 divisions Indios, Infieles, and Moros which, as 

 aptly remarked by Dr F. H. H. Guillemard, is 

 "an ecclesiastical rather than a scientific classifica- 

 Indios are the christianized and more or less 

 cultured populations of all the towns and of the 

 settled agricultural districts, forming eight ethnical 

 groups, each speaking a distinct Malayo-Polynesian language of 

 much more archaic type than the standard Malay, with a total 

 population of about 5,300,000 distributed over the Archipelago 

 as under 2 : 



Three Social 

 Groups. 



tion 



The 



The Indios. 



Nation. 

 Bisayans. 



Islands. 



fNearly all between Mindoro exclu-1 



( sive and Mindanao inclusive J 



( Luzon; Mindoro, Polillo;! 



1 Lubang; Marinduque J 



Parts of Luzon . 



Luzon, Burias, Masbate (?) 



Pangasinanes. Parts of Luzon . 



Pampangos. Parts of Luzon . 



Cagayanes. Luzon ; Babuyanes : Batanes 



Zambales. Parts of Luzon . 



Total " Christianas Civilizados" in the Philippines 



Tagalas. 



Ilocanos. 

 Bicols. 



Population. 

 2,500,000 



1,250,000 



460,000 



380,000 



300,000 



250,000 



90,000 



70,000 



. 5,300,000 



By "Infieles" are understood all the aborigines who are 

 neither Christians nor Muhammadans, that is, 



The Infieles. 



pagans generally in the wild state, and variously 

 described as "savage," "degraded," "warlike," "sanguinary," 

 "wild but timid," "peaceful," "poor," "docile and harmless," 

 "treacherous," -terms which indicate more or less accurately 



1 Australasia, 1894, II. p. 49. 



- These and further details are from F. Blumentritt's Vadeinecum etnografico 

 ite Filipinas, in Bol. Soc. Geogr. Madrid, 1889, p. 246 sq. 



