PHILIPPINE ISLANDS 



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PHILIPPINE ISLANDS 



in importance, the 3,130 others would not 

 fill any state other than Rhode Hand. Con- 

 necticut or Delaware, for they contain on the 

 average only two and a half square miles. It 

 is not surprising, then, that nearly half of them 

 have never been named, nor that two-thirds of 

 them contain no people. The total area o; 

 archipelago is 115,026 square i; 

 Filipinos and Other Races. Anyone who re- 

 1 to thi> Indian- Hi" America as Americans 

 Id cause little more confusion than most 

 of us do with our idea of the word Filipino. 

 A score of years after Magellan's visit to the 

 islands a Spanish admiral pave the name Islas 

 'inas to part of the group, in honor of the 

 prince who later became Philip II. In time 

 tin- name was bestowed upon all of them, and 

 the natives whom the Spaniards met 



'pinos. But not all the inhabitants 

 under Spanish influence; to-day those 

 -eaped it are not included in the term. 



Filipinos are Malays, who came to the 

 land not long before the Kuropeuns, driving into 

 the mountains other Malays who had preceded 

 them. The very first invaders had found a race 

 of curly-haire.l people less than five feet in 

 height, n of the lowe-t stage of hu- 



M the Spaniards called Negritos 

 (litt!- About 25,000 of them remain. 



fonn v as large a proportion of the 



population a* the Indians do in the United 

 I .lays who fled before the Fili- 

 pinos are thought by many to be now superior 

 to them. As mountain dwellers they have lived 

 in a more invigorating climate and have had to 

 work for their living, while the Filipinos loi- 

 1 in the rich tropic lands of the coast. The 

 -p. 'lied Igorrotcs) cover moun- 

 tain ,-id > with terraces, said to be the most 

 rkahle in the world, on which they raise 

 nre and other crops by irrigation. Most of 

 tli. in \\en- head-hunters, hut in many instances 

 liking for this sport has been replaced by 

 a passion for baseball, tugs of war or foot 

 races. Still other Malaya came after the Fili- 

 I, and might have conquered them hut for 

 iropeans. They are Moham- 

 i ins, and so were called Mum*, or Moors, 

 Spaniards, who had driven the true 



v before. 



No one knows just how many people tin re 



:M tin Philippines, for some of the tribes 



are still out of touch with the go\ . Hut 



nates and census figures combined p! 

 the number at about 9,000,000, of whom 

 haps 1,000,000 are non-Christian. The Filipinos 



are largely Roman Catholics. Many of them, 

 among whom may be included perhaps all the 

 leaders, are mestizos, or mixed bloods, and count 

 among their ancestors Spaniards, Chinese and, 

 in some cases, Mexicans. 



The most picturesque of the natives are the 

 wild tribes. In their natural state most of them 

 wear only a breech cloth, but others are fond 

 of bright-colored cotton fabrics of extravagant 

 pattern. The Moros dress in pajamalike suits, 



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Tin- largest islands and rhi.-f i1i-s of the 

 are nain.-.l mi tin- map. ami surrounding \\.. 

 are Mrnti 



with gaudy sashes and turbans. The Filipinos 

 have adopted the white coat and trousers com- 

 mon to white nun of the tropics, but when the 

 other tribes brgm to mutate them the latter 

 commence with hats, then adopt shirts and 



. and I' i w of them lied the stage 



rousers or shoes. Kven the eminent and 

 well-disciplmrd Igorot and 1: 

 >r military police (a group of whom i- >ho\vn 

 in the panel which . have no 



uniform below the waist but the '('," * 

 and their shiny hr\\n -km-, and the \\ell-organ- 

 iied police of other mhes indicate their office 



irs" to their loin cloths. 



Aside from th. -mty and th- ir dress, 



M is now little to di the Filipinos 



from r Malays. Only a small number 



