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hair of the Mongoloid and tlie sleek, tliouj^h slightly curved or wavy, 

 hair of the Malayan and Indian peoples;" their skin color is lelativelv 

 dark, but only so much so as is peculiar to the tribes of India. With 

 the little blacks of the Andamans there is not the slightest agreement. 

 In this we have one of the best evidences against the theory of 

 Waitz-Gerland that the differences in physical appearance are to be 

 attributed to variation merely. I will, however, so as not to be 

 misunderstood, expressly emphasize that I am not willing to declare 

 that the two peoples have been at all times so constituted: I am now 

 speaking of actual conditions. 



In the same sense I wish also my remarks concerning the Negritos 

 to be taken. Not one fact is in evidence from which we may conclude 

 that a single neighboring people known to us has been Negritized. 

 We are therefore justified when we see in the Negritos a truly prim- 

 itive people. As they arc now, they were more than three hundred 

 and fifty years ago when the fii"st European navigators visited these 

 islands. About older relationships nothing is known. All the graves 

 from which the bones of Negritos now in possession were taken belong 

 to recent times, and also the oldest descriptions which have been 

 received, so far as phylogeny is concerned, must be characterized as 

 modern. 



The little change in the mode of life made known through these 

 descriptions in i;onnection with the low grade of culture on which these 

 impoverished tribes live amply testify that we have before us here a 

 primitive race. ■• * * 



[The question whether we have to do with older, independent races 

 in the Malay Archipelago or with mixtures is everywhere an open 

 one. — Tkaxslatoij.] 



Whoever would picture the present ethnic afiiliations of the light- 

 colored peoples of the Philippines will soon land in confusion on 

 account of the great number of tribes. One of the a})lest observers, 

 Ferd. Blumentritt,' mentions, besides the Negritos, the Chinese and 

 the Avhites, not less than 51 such tribes. He classifies them in one 

 group as Malays, according to the plan now customary. This division 

 rests primarily on a linguistic foundation. But when it is noted that 

 the identity of language among all the tribes is not established and 

 among many not at all proved, it is sufficiently shown that sp(M-ch is a 

 character of little constancy, and that a language may be imposed upon 

 a people to the annihilation of their own by those who belong U) a 

 diffei-ent litiguistic stock. 'J'hc Malay Sea is filled with ishmds on 

 which tarry the remnants of peoples not Malay. 



For a long time, especially since the Dutch occup ation, these old 



iVersuch einer Ethnographie der Philippinen, Petcnnann'n MittheiUuifipn.dotha, 



1882, No. 67. 



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