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Hiigel says that their customs resemble those of the Igorrotes. This is 

 a contradiction, in which more stress is laid on the testimony of the two 

 Augustinians, that Mundos is misused as a collective name, like Igor- 

 rotes, Maguianes, etc. 



I^abayuganes.—A. warlike, head-hunting people of Malay origin, 

 dwelling westward from Malaneg or Malanec (province of Cagay?in).' 

 They appear to be related to the Guinaanes. 



iVT'epr /to.— (Native names: Aeta, Ate (Palawan), Eta, Ita, Maniaima 

 (northeast Mindanao), old Spanish name, Negrillo.s, Negros del Pais). 

 The woolly-haired, dark-colored aborigines of the land who, in miser- 

 able condition, live scattered among the Malay population in various 

 parts of Luzon, Mindoro(?), Tablas, Panay, Busuanga(0, Culion(^), 

 Palawan, Negros, Cebu, and ]\Iindanao. There are supposed to be 

 20,000 of them. They are also spoken of under the word Balugas. 

 The Negrito idiom of the province of Cagayan is called Atta. 



["It may be regarded as proved that Negritos are found in Luzon, 

 Alabat, Corregidor, Panay, Tablas, Negros, Cebu, northeastern Min- 

 danao, and Palawan. It is questionable whether thev occur in Gui- 

 maias (island south of Panay), Mindoro." — A. B. ]\Ieyer, 18!»t), p. li>. 



Upon the Negritos, consult A. B. Meyer: The Negritos of the 

 Philippines, publications of the Royal Ethnographic Museum of Dres- 

 den, 1893, Vol. IX, 10 pi., folio; also, The Distribution of the Negri- 

 tos, Dresden, 1899; Montano, Mission aux Philippines, 1885; ^Nlarche. 

 Lu(,*on et Palaouan, 1887. — Translator.] 



Palauanes. — Another name for Tagbanuas, perhaps their original 

 name, from which the island of Paragua got the name Isla ch' los 

 Palauanes. The u in these names equals the Gei-man //• and the 

 English v. 



Pcmnxmgos. — A Malay language group who, at the arrival of the 

 Spaniards, possessed a civilization and method of writing of its own. 

 The people inhabit the province of Pampanga, Porac, and singh' U»ca- 

 tions in Nueva Ecija, Bata^in, and Zambales. They are Christians. 



Panayano. — Dialect of Visaya. 



Pangasinanes. — A Malay language group which already at tlu' tuiu^ 

 of the conquest had its own civilization and writing. The ])eo|)le 

 inhabit the larger part of Pangasinan and various localities of Zam- 

 bales, Nueva Ecija, Benguet, and Porac (?)• They are Christians. 



Pwngidanes^ see Piingianes. 



Panuipuyes {Pariipuyes).—^ tribe of so-called Igorrotes. Thnr 

 dwellings were to be sought in the western portion of Nueva Vizcaya 

 or Isabela de Luzon. 



Peninsulares. — European Spaniards. 



Pidatanos.— In the back country of Libungan. therefore not far. 

 from the delta of the Rio Grande de Mindanao, dwell, as the M<.ros 



