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they possess for valour, has caused the name of Macas- 

 sar to be regarded as equivalent to warrior. It may be 

 questioned, whether the possession of some parts of 

 Malacca, near Salengore, and Point Romania, at no 

 great distance from remains of the Samang expelled 

 Oriental Negroes, is not also an indication that the 

 Buges tribes came from this portion of the continent ? 

 The same observation is equally applicable to the 

 Magindanao, who are also Horafouras, that reached the 

 island when the Philippines were still wholly possessed 

 by Papuas or Bangel-bangel savages. Such, again, are 

 the Bissayans of Lu^on ; the races found onwards to 

 Tywan or Formosa, and the Ladrones, who are all pos- 

 sessed of Hindoo tokens of affinity, mixed with evidence 

 of an original consanguinity with the Japanese, parti- 

 cularly to the eastward ; and, according as either pre- 

 ponderates, adopting a Caucasian or a Mongolic ratio- 

 cination : these mental qualifications are evinced, in 

 the readiness many have shown to abandon their an- 

 cient idolatry : and the preference they give to the law 

 of Mahommed, rather than to the Christian, is in con- 

 sequence of the former having had merely teachers to 

 spread the new doctrines, while the latter endeavoured 

 to make proselytes by means of Portuguese and Spanish 

 conquerors. Of all these tribes, the Pagans were, or 

 still are, cannibals; the others have certain forms of 

 governments established, and often written laws, in 

 alphabets of their own construction, having scarcely any 

 retrospect to Chinese ideas ; and they were so little in 

 communication with pure Mongols, that it was not until 



