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the negro are less strong-Iy marked, the colour of their skin and 

 their complexion are both less black. For this reason old 

 Spanish authors speak of them as '' menos negro y menos feo^^ 

 (less negro-like and less hideous). Owing to their small stature, 

 which does not average above 4 feet 8 inches English, they 

 have received the appellation of Negritos (diminutive Ne- 

 groes). By Spanish writers upon the Philippines they have 

 been described as a still existent branch of the lowest type of 

 humanity, without fixed dwellings, without regular employ- 

 ment, eking out a bare subsistence on roots and wild fruits, 

 and such animals as they could bring down with the bow 

 and arrow, their only weapon. Through the kind offices 

 of Mr. Grahame, wef had an opportunity of gratifying our 

 curiosity to see an individual of this singular race of 

 Negritos. This was a girl of about 12 or 14 years of age, 

 of dwarf-like figure, with woolly hair, broad nostrils, but 

 without the dark sldn and wide everted lips which charac- 

 terize the negro type. This pleasing-looking, symmetrically 

 formed girl had been brought up in the house of a Spaniard, 

 apparently with the pious object of rescuing her soul from 

 heathenism. The poor little Negrilla hardly understood her 

 own mother tongue, besides a very little Tagal, so that we 

 had considerable difficulty in understanding each other. 

 The received opinion that the Negrillos and the Igorotes are 

 of a distinct race, but having some affinity with the Paj^uans 

 of New Guinea, seems to us for many reasons very problema- 

 tical. We are as yet far too little acquainted with the races 



