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shows a strono- inclination to form wavy locks, indeed passes jrrud- 

 ually into crinkled, if not into spiral, roils. Such hair is found^spe- 

 cially ill the interior of the islands, where the so-called al)oricrinal 

 population is purer and where for a long- time the name of Alfuros' 

 has been conferred on them. On most points affinity with Netrritos 

 or Papuans is not to be recog-nized. Should such at any time have 

 existed, we are a long way from the period when the direct causes 

 therefor are to be looked for. In this connection the study of the 

 Philippines is rich with instruction. In the limits of the almost insu- 

 lar, isolated Negrito (>nclave, mixtures between Negritos and Indios 

 very seldom surprise one, and never the transitions that can have 

 arisen in the post-generative time of development. [The ishind of 

 Negros, on the contrary, is peopled by such crossbreeds. — TiiAxs- 



LATOR.] 



If there are among the l^right-colored islanders of the Indian Ocean 

 Alfuros and Mala3^s close together there is nothing against coming 

 upon this contrast in the Philippine population also. Among the 

 more central peoples the tribal differences are so great that almost 

 every explorer stumbles on the question of mixture. There not only 

 the Dayaks and the other Malays obtrude themselves, but also the 

 Chinese and the Mongolian peoples of Farther India. Indeed, many 

 facts are known, chiefly in the language,' the religion, the domestic 

 arts, the agriculture, the pastoral life which remind one of known 

 conditions peculiarly Indian. The results of the ethnologists are so 

 tangled here that one has to be cautious when one or anoth(n- of them 

 draws conclusions concerning immigrations, because of certain local 

 or territorial specializations. Of course, when a Brahman ic custom 

 occurs anywhere it is right to conclude that it came here from India. 

 But before assuming that the tribe in which such a custom ])re\ ails 

 itself comes from Hither or Farther India, the time has to be ascer- 

 tained to which the custom is to be traced back. The chronological 

 evidence leads to the confident belief that the custom and the tribe 

 immigrated together. 



Over the whole Philippine Archipelago religious customs have 

 changed with the progress of external relations. Christianity has in 

 many places spread its peculiar customs, observances, and opinions, 

 and changed entirely the direction of thought. On closer view are to 

 be detected in the midst of Christian activities older survivals, as 

 ingredients of belief which, in spite of that religion, have not vanished. 

 Before Christianity, in many places, Islam flourished, and it is not 



^On this objectionable name, see supra, p. 514. That the terra does not connote 

 hair characters of. A. B. Meyer, Sitzungsb. <1. Phil. Hist. Cla.«^secler kaiserlichen Aka- 

 demie der Wissensch. Wien, 1882, Vol. CI, p. 550.— Tkanslatok. 



*Don T. H. Pardo de Tavera, El sanscrito e la lengua tagalog. Parin, 1887. 



