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METZGER— THE FILIPINO. 



[March 17, 



listen to the teachings of the Roman Catholic church, while the 

 Mussulmans are the followers of Mohammed and never during the 

 three hundred years of Spanish sovereignty were they brought 

 under either her religious or political control. 



Fig. 4. Tagalog Girl. 



The Tagalog as a tribe, numbering about seven hundred thousand , 

 are the most civilized of the three great divisions of the domesti- 

 cated Filipinos. This is probably due to the fact that ever since 

 the conquest of the islands by the Spaniards, they have been 

 brought in direct contact with Europeans and have felt to an 

 extent the influence of domesticity and social order. The Tagalog 

 and the Visayan differ very little in physique and configuration of 



