thp: peopling of the Philippines/ 



By KuD. ViKC^HOw. 



[Translated, with notes, by O. T. Mason.] 



I'ART I. 



Since the days when the lirst European navigators entered the South 

 Sea, the dispute over the source and ethnic affiliations of the inhabit- 

 ants of that extended and scattered island world has been unsettled. 

 The most superficial glance points out a contrariety in external ap- 

 pearances, which leaves little doubt that here peoples of entirely 

 different blood live near and among one another. And this is so 

 apparent that the pathfinder in this region, Magellan, gave expres- 

 sion to the contrariety in his names for tribes and islands. Since 

 dark complexion was observed on individuals in certain tribes and in 

 defined areas, and light complexion on others, here abundantly, there 

 quite exceptional, writers applied Old World names to the new phe- 

 nomena without further thought. The Philippines set the decisive 

 example in this. Fernando Magellan first discovered the islands of 

 this great archipelago in 1521, March 16. After his death th(^ Span- 

 iards completed the circle of his discoveries. At this time the name of 

 Negros was fixed, ^ which even now is called Islas de los Pintados. For 

 years the Spaniards called the entire archipelago Islas de Poniente; 

 gradually, after the expedition of Don Fray Garcia Jofre de Loaisa 

 (1526), the new title of the Philippines prevailed, through Salazar. 

 The people were divided into two groups, the Little Negroes or Negritos 

 and the Indios. It is quite conceivable that involuntarily the opinion 

 prevailed that the Negritos had close relationship with the African 

 blacks, and the Indios^ with the lighter-complexioned inhabitants of 

 India, or at least of Indonesia. 



' Tran.slated from Sitzungsberichte der Koniglich Preussischen Akademie der Wis- 

 seiiHchaften zti Berlin. Berlin, 1897, January-June, 279-289. 



■^ NoTK. — The Lsland (jf Xegro.s received its name because it wa." peopled chicHy by 

 a dark, woolly-haired race, while in other islands these were confined to the interior. 

 Cf. A. B. Meyer, Negritos, 1899, p. 1(3.— Translator. 



'This word, except in an historical sense, should never be used for non-Negrito 

 Filipinos. 



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