THE PEOPLING OF TEE PHILIPPINES. ^63 



have, on various occasions, mentioned this probable pre-Malayan, or 

 at least proto-Malayan, population which stands in nearest relation to 

 the settling of Polynesia. Here I will merely mention that the Poly- 

 nesian sagas bring the progenitor from the west, and that the passage 

 between Halmahera (Gilolo) and the Philippines is pointed out as the 

 course of invasion. 



At any rate, it is quite probable that the skulls from Lanang, Cra- 

 garay and other Philippine islands are the remains of a very old, if 

 not autochthonous, prehistoric layer of population. The present 

 mountain tribes have furnished no close analogies. As to the Igor- 

 rotes, which Blumentritt attributes to the first invasion, I refer to my 

 description* given on the ground of chronological investigations; 

 according to the account given by Hans Meyer f the disposal of the 

 dead in log coffins and in caves still goes on. Of the skulls themselves, 

 none were brachycephalous ; on the contrary, they exhibit platyrrhine 

 and in part decidedly pithecoid noses. On the whele, I came to the 

 conclusion, as did earlier Quatrefages and Hamy, that 'they stand 

 next in comparison with the Dayaks of Borneo,' but I hold yet the 

 impression that they belong to a very old, probably pre-Malay, immi- 

 gration. J 



* Schadel der Igorroten. Verhl. der Berliner Anthrop. Gesellsch., 1883, pp. 

 300, 399. [On the Igorrotes see A. B. Meyer, Negritos, 1899, p. 12, note 2. 

 — Translator.] 



t Die Igorroten von Luzon, p. 386. 



t With this study of crania should be read Dr. A. B. Meyer, on craniological 

 data and their value, in The Distribution of the Negritos, Dresden, 1899, in 

 which he says : "The form of the skull in general is variable and can not be 

 regarded as a permanent character in the development of the races." The 

 reader must not neglect Dr. Meyer's publications, since in them he has the 

 results of careful studies on the spot: Volume VIII, of the folio publications 

 of the Dresden Royal Ethnographic Museum, 1890, on the tribes of Northern 

 Luzon; Volume IX, of the same, on the Negritos, 1893; Album of Philippine 

 Types, 1885, 32 plates, 4°; ditto, 1891, 50 plates; and The Distribution of the 

 Negritos in the Philippine Islands and Elsewhere, Dresden. The last three 

 are published by Stengel & Co., Dresden. The little book on distribution is 

 in English, and contains, in addition to most useful information, a list of 

 Blumentritt's publications. — Translator. 



