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METZGER— THE FILIPINO. 



[March 17, 



As regards this third division of the domesticated Filipino, the 

 so-called Moros, I can say but little and that principally from the 

 observation of others, as it has never been my lot to have been 

 thrown in contact with these people as a collective body. These 

 people occupy the islands of Mindanao, Palawan and the Sulu 



Fig. 5. Mussulman Girl, "so-called Moro." 



sultanate. Their early history is vague and dissipated. It is 

 generally conceded, however, that these people are the descen- 

 dants of the Mussulman Dyaks of Borneo, their ancestors having 

 been a great chief and his retinue, who early in the sixteenth 

 century fled his native land and settled on these islands, bringing 

 with them the Mohammedan faith. This strange people never 

 yielded to either Spanish arms or Spanish monastics, but continued 



