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of Luzon and by older non-Spanisli writers on coast dwellers of Samar, 

 Leyte, and Mindoro. Latterly it has eonie about that theTa.ral name 

 Dumagat(from dagat, "sea," "dwelleronthestrand/' - skillful sailor," 

 etc.) has been taken for the name of a peoph\ [A. B. Meyer, lb99 

 p. 11, calls the Dumaj^ates Negrito half-breeds of the island o'f Ala- 

 bat, quoting- Steen Bille, Reise der Galathea, 1852, Vol. I, p. 4-51.— 

 Translatok]. 



Dura(jinHn.—T\\^i Manguianes of Mongoloid typc^ are so called, who 

 occupy the highest portions of the mountains around Pinamaiayan 

 (Mindoro). They are called also Buchtulan. 



Etas^ see Negritoa. 



Gaddanes. — A Malay head-hunting j)eople, with a language of their 

 own, settled in the provinces of Isabela and Cagayan. l)ut especially 

 in the comandancia of Saltan (Luzon). The Gaddanes of Bayombong 

 and Bagabag are Christians; the rest are heathen. 



Gantungan, Gamanangaiux,. — A ]\Iala3' people having their own 

 idiom, and inhabiting the mountain provinces in the eastern and 

 northeastern portions of Tuao (province of Cagayan. Luzon). They 

 are heathen. 



Guiangas, Gucmgas. — A Malay people in tlie northeastern and 

 northern part of Davao (Mindanao). They are heathen and do not 

 differ greatly from the Bagobo. their neighbors; on the otiier hand, 

 according to the accounts of the ^Jesuit missionaries, their speech dif- 

 fers totall}^ from those of the heathen tribes near by. and for that 

 reason it is difficult to learn. On account of their wildness they are 

 much decried. The variants, Guanga and Gulanga, wliich mean "for- 

 est people," give rise to the bare suspicion that they are a fragment 

 of the little-known tribe who, according to location, lived scattered in 

 southern Mindanao under the names: Maiiguangas, ]\Iangulangas. 

 Dulanganes. 



Guiiiihnjaiios (pronounced Gimbahanos). — The historians of the sev- 

 enteenth century, under this title, designated a wild, heathen people, 

 apparently of Malay origin, living in the interior of Sulu Islaiul. 

 Their name is derived from their war drum (guimba). Later writers 

 are silent concerning them. In modern times the first mention of 

 them is by P. A. de Pazos and by a Manila journal, from which 

 accounts they are still at least in Cawxlon and in the valley of tli(^ 

 Loo; it appears that a considerable portion of them, if not the entire 

 people, have received Islam. 



Variants: Guinbajanos, Guimlwnos, (hiimt>as, Quinipanos. 



Ghuumhc^ (pronounced Ginaanes).— A Malay head-hunting people 

 inhabiting the watershed of tiie Rio Abra and Rio (Jrande de Cagayan 

 (Luzon), as well as the neighboring region of Isabela an.l Abra. 

 They are heathen; their language possesses the letter/. 



Variants: Guianes, Ginan, Qiiinaanes, Quiuaues. [See A. H. Meyer, 



