METZGER— THE EILIPINO. 



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proof of their manliness and courage. The arms used by these 

 people are wicked looking lances with trident tips and arrows car- 

 rying at the point a mesh of bats' claws which have previously been 

 dipped in the venom of snakes. 



The men are magnificient specimens of physical strength, and 

 with a wealth of long, straight, jet-black hair reaching to the 

 shoulders and with a color of skin of almost equal hue, they make a 

 very striking picture of primitive man. Like the Negrito they 

 subsist on roots, game and such other food stuffs as falls in their 

 path. They are pagans and at no time has any attempt been made 

 to persuade them to embrace the western system of civilization. 



