THE LIVING RACES OF MANKIND 



and wearing garments of cloth. They have written languages; although some of the tribes are 

 no higher in the social scale than the Dyas of Borneo. The Achenese, or inhabitants of the 

 Sultanate of Ache, a province about as large as Ireland, have for a long time intermarried with 

 Arabs. They are Mohammedans, and their language is written in Arabic. They have a bad 

 name for treachery and cruelty, but the only accounts we have of them are derived from the 

 Dutch, whom they have been fighting for more than twenty years, and who may be prejudiced. 

 They are clever craftsmen, and build good ships. Every man is a soldier. 



The Battas* (see illustrations, pages 81-83), to the south of Ache, are an inland hill people, 

 and somewhat like the Dyas of Borneo, taller and darker than the true Malays. Their hair is 

 straight, and they bear no trace of the Negrito. They may perhaps have come under Hindu 

 influence. For centuries they have been cannibals, their victims being criminals, slaves, and 

 prisoners of war. Their marriage system is matriarchal, as in Tibet a woman having several 

 husbands, and holding property in her own right. 



THE PHILIPPINE ISLANDS. 



THE Spaniards of the Philippine Islands, being much under priestly influence, have divided 

 the Malays into three classes: ludios is the term applied to those who have become Christians; 

 Infieles are the Pagans of the interior; while the Muros (see illustrations, page 89) are the 

 Sulus and other Mohammedan tribes. These Malays have olive complexions, broad noses, rather 

 full lips, and straight hair, which is nearly black. They are divided into a large number 

 of tribes, each speaking a different dialect; so that in the island of Luzon alone we find 

 as many as twenty different dialects. The chief tribes here are Tayctl and Bisnyan, which 

 together number about a million and a half, and are still rapidly increasing. The Moros are an 

 extremely mixed people. For centuries the Malay pirates filled their harems with women from 

 different tribes of Malaysia, even sometimes taking European women. The Chinese are very 

 numerous in the Philippines, having been there from the earliest times, and had it not been 

 for the Spaniards would probably have overrun the whole archipelago. From time to time 



* According to Professor Keane the current form Battak is incorrect. It is plural. The singular is Batta. 



Photo by Dr. f. If. 11. Guillemartt] 



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A GROUP OF MALAYS. 



