THE PHILIPPINE ISLANDS 49 



arrows are always poisoned. Their intelligence is of a 

 very low type, and according to Montano they are unable 

 to count above five. Excepting where they have become 

 partly civilised, they are more or less nomadic of haljit. 

 Such reHgion as they have would appear to consist chietiy 

 of a sort of ancestor-worship. They are monogamists 

 without exception. The chief or headman is chosen 

 from among the oldest and most respected of the tribe. 

 Circumcision is universally practised. Little appears to 

 be known of their language, except that spoken by them 

 in some parts of Luzon. Oscar Peschel and some other 

 ethnologists class the Negrito with the Papuan, an 

 opinion httle likely to be shared by those who are well 

 acquainted with the latter race. The slender build, flat 

 nose, diminutive stature, and gentle retiring manners 

 render such a classification impossible. Mr. J. Barnard 

 Davis, from the examination of three fine crania, consideis 

 the Negrito to be distinct from any other race. Taking 

 all their physical characters into consideration, they seem 

 more nearly to resemble the Andaman islanders and the 

 Semangs of the Malay Peninsula than any other existing 

 peoples. 



To the Spaniard of the present day the people of 

 IMalayan stock who inhabit the Philippines are known as 

 Tndios, Infidcs, and Moros — an ecclesiastical rather than 

 scientific classification. The Indios are all those who 

 have come under Spanish influence, and are professed 

 Christians ; the InfiMes are the wilder pagans of the 

 interior who have always rebelled against Spanish rule, 

 and the Moros are the Sulus and other Mohammedan 

 tribes occupying south-west Mindanao, the Sulu group, 

 and part of Palawan. The people included in this 

 nomenclature have certain characteristics in common 

 which are collectively typical of the Malay race, namely, 



E 



