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and their gait is sluggish and toddling. They, like their brothers 

 of the North subsist upon that which nature is kind enough 

 to cast in their way, however, they do make occasional futile at- 

 tempts at cultivating a little sugar cane or rice. These people can- 

 not justly be termed a war-like people, yet revenge is one of their 

 strongest traits. Distrust of the white-man is a preeminent feature 

 of this tribe. This fixed dislike is the result of one of the many of 

 Spain's blunders in her sovereignty of these islands, for it was her 

 attempt to force western civilization on these people, who did not 

 wish to exchange the comforts, usages and independence of their 

 primitive state, for what the crown of Spain deemed a proper con- 

 stituent principle of good colonists. To roam at large in their 

 forest home, free as the wind, was to them more to be desired than 

 to have to wear clothes, pay taxes and incarcerate themselves in the 

 conventional domestic habits of the European. Foreman aptly ex- 

 presses it when he says "as to Christianity, it would be as hard a 

 task to convince them of what Roman Catholicism deems indispen- 

 sable for the salvation of the soul as it would be to convert all Eng- 

 land to the teachings of Buddha, although Buddhism is as logical a 

 religion as Christianity." The distrust incident to this forcible 

 attempt to civilize and domesticate this people will remain, I be- 

 lieve, one of their prime distinctive characteristics for centuries to 

 come. 



There is a hybrid class of Igorrotes, known as the Chino-igorrote. 

 A people differing little from the unmixed blood except that asso- 

 ciated with the brutal instincts there is the cunning and astuteness 

 of the Mongol. This mongrel race are supposed to be the descen- 

 dants of an issue, the result of the affiliation of the dispersed fol- 

 lowers of the Corsair Li-ma-hong who attacked the city of Manila 

 and was routed and fled to the region of the Igorrotes. They, like 

 their half brothers, are confirmed infidels. 



Of the uncivilized tribes of the north, there are a few who, owing 

 to their distinctive characteristics, are worthy of mention, the 

 principal of which tribes are the Tinguians, Dayapes, and a 

 peculiar class of tropical inhabitants known as Albinos. 



The Tinguians inhabit principally the district of Al Abra and in 

 appearance closely resemble the Igorrote, and appear to be as 

 intelligent as the ordinary subdued native. They are pagans but 

 have no temples. Their gods are hidden in the cavities of the 



