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men are short and broad-shouldered, with powerful chests and 

 thick-set bodies, and extremely active. Their features are of 

 the Malay type, but peculiar. Their eyes are remarkably bright 

 Their colour is light yellowish brown. They have often a slight 

 beard and moustache. They wear bright-coloured shirts and 

 rather tight-fitting trousers, buttoned close round the leg at the 

 ankle. The Moro women are short and small, and delicate- 

 limbed, most of them very handsome when young ; many of 

 them are very light-coloured in complexion ; their eyes, like the 

 men's, being extremely bright. They are fond of bright yellows 

 and reds in their dress, and are very fully clad. The men are armed 

 with circular shields and spears, and also used formerly at least 

 suits of armour made of plates of buffalo horn, linked together 

 with wire, which are very rare objects in Ethnological Museums. 

 At Basilan Island, at Port Isabella, the Moros houses are 



PILE-DWELLINGS OF LUTA03 AT ZAMBOANGA. 



constructed on piles in a small lagoon-like offset of the channel 

 between this island and the small outlying island of Malamaui. 

 The houses are entirely isolated by the water. They stand 

 together, and a wide rickety platform connects many of them 

 with one another.* At Zamboanga, the Moros houses are also 

 agreement has been signed at Manila, between the Sultan of Sulu and the 

 Spanish Government. 



* For an Account of the inhabitants of the Sulu Islands, the same race 



