Population of Manila. 293 



most cultivated dialects and idioms of the Tagal is to be 

 found an unusually great number of Malay and Javanese words. 

 The majority of the plants cultivated here, such as rice, 

 sugar-cane, yam, indigo, cocoa-palm, as also all domestic ani- 

 mals, many of the metals, and even the digits used in enu- 

 meration, are, although greatly corrupted, directly traceable to 

 the corresponding words or names in Malay. Moreover, there 

 is a tradition very prevalent throughout Luzon, that the 

 Spaniards, at their first arrival in this Archipelago, found 

 certain Bornese officials here, who were levying taxes and 

 tithes for the Rajahs resident in that island. 



Next in number to the Tagals rank the Chinese with 

 their descendants, and to these succeed the Spaniards, with 

 their offspring born in the country, who amount together to 

 barely 5000, or about a 28th of the whole population of the 

 capital ; of Spaniards of pm-e descent, there are not above 300 

 in Manila.* 



Besides the Tagal there is in this Archipelago yet another 

 race, the Negritos, who only inhabit the mountain districts of 

 the islands of Luzon, Mindoro, Panay, Negros, and Mindanao, 

 and are estimated at about 25,000 souls. These Negritos del 

 Monte, or Negrillos, also called Acta, Aigta, Ite, Inapta, and 

 Igorote, are small in physical conformation as compared 

 with their African congeners. The characteristic featiu-es of 



* The Stranger's Guide to the Philippines [Giiia de Fornsteros) for the j'ear 1S59 

 ^\es the names of 61 commercial houses established by Spaniards in Manila. 

 Besides these, there are in the capital of the Philippines, seven English, three Nortli 

 American, two French, one German, and two Swiss trading firms. 



