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NATIVE TKIBES OF THE PHILlPriNES. 



2. The langiuige probloni, it is iv})e{itecl, has in itself luiug'ht to do 

 with blood or breeds of men. Though the population of the Philip- 

 pine Archipelago is about as large as that of the whole Western Hemi- 

 sphere when Magellan, in August. 1521, reached Mindanao and Ce])u, 

 no such riches of linguistic families ever existed in the islands as in 

 America. Already a small number of grammars and dictionaries have 

 been pul)lished by Catholic missionaries and others. l)ut. according to 

 those best authorized to speak, the linguistic task remains to be done. 



3. On the third point, that of sociology and politics, the gentile and 

 tribal organization, it may be said that the Negi'itos are not believed 

 to possess any plan of organization, which is only a confession of 

 ignorance. Blumentritt applies the terms "hord," "stamm," "tri- 

 bus," "volk." and '* volkstamm." as he was obliged to do, nuich as 

 English and American ethnologists write the words horde, people, 

 tribe, and folk, meaning aggregations in general where the specific 

 plan of organization is not understood. 



4:. Place names for settlements and groups of inhabitants are of least 

 importance in ethnology. The Eskimo add the syllable ""mute" to the 

 name of a locality to denote the people camp(>d there. So, in the Phil- 

 ippines, as Blumentritt explains, many of his folk names are place 

 names (toponyms), throwing no light on breed, speech, or political 

 organization. 



To uniavel the mysteries set forth by the foregoing is the oppoi-tu- 

 nity of the ethnologist. It needs only to look back upon the bloody 

 horrors enacted in our own history through lack of knowledge con- 

 cerning the social organization and prejudices of the Indians to awaken 

 the li\(diest sympathies and cooperation of the statesmen and philan- 

 thropists in the ethnology of the Philippines. 



General table on the Philippine and Sulu islands from census of 1887. 



Islands and groups. 



Luzon and islands near. . 

 Mindoro— Masbate island; 



Visayas Archipelago 



Mindanao (12) 



Calamianes and Pahiaii . 

 Sulu Islands and Basilan 



Total 



Square 

 miles. 



109,206 

 15,358 

 54,788 

 97, %8 

 14, 123 

 4,739 



296, 182 



Popula- 

 tion, 1887. 



3,443,000 



126,000 



2,181,000 



209,000 



22, 000 



4,000 



Natives, in- 

 dependent 



or not 

 counted. 



5,985,000 



? 160,000 

 ? 100,000 

 ? 200,000 

 ? 400,000 

 ? 50,000 

 ? 100,000 



Total. 



3, 600, 000 

 225, 000 



2, 400, 000 



600,000 



72, 000 



104, 000 



1,000,000 I 7,001,000 



Per 

 square 

 mile. 



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For a list of Blumentritt's papers, especially those in which the 

 Negritos are described, consult A. B. Meyer, The Distribution of the 

 Negritos: Dresden, 1899, Stengel, pp. 7-11. The other publications 

 of Dr. Meyer on the Philippine islanders are Vol. VIII, folio series, 

 Royal Ethnographic Museum in Dresden, 1890; Die Philippineu, I, 



