are good at nothing else, and 

 their inteUigence is of an ex- 

 ceptionally low order. 



In other parts of the Philip- 

 pines where Negritos have 

 come more in contact with 

 civilized natives, I have found 

 them building larger huts, 

 and, in rare instances, they 

 even construct small houses, 

 which approach more or less 

 closely the poorer class dwel- 

 lings of their Filipino neigh- 

 bors. In the Cagayan Valley 

 and in the province of Bataan, 

 Negritos have been known to 

 cultivate land in corn and rice 

 for several successive years ; 

 but they are essentially a wild 

 and nomadic people and every 

 effort thus far put forth, by 

 Spaniards or Americans, to 

 educate them or materially to 

 better their condition in any 

 other way, save by protecting 

 them from harsh treatment at 

 the hands of their civilized 

 neighbors, has resulted in 

 complete failure. 



tee;th chipping 



Many of the Negritos point 

 their front teeth, but not by 

 filing them, as is commonly 

 supposed. A chip of wood is 

 held behind the tooth to be ; 

 operated upon ; the point of a i 

 bolo is placed in such a posi- i • 

 tion as to slant across the | 

 corner of tooth to be removed, 

 and a sharp blow on the bolo 

 chips a piece from the tooth. ^\-^^ coming 

 The opposite corner is sim- one, 



ilarly operated upon, and an 

 artistic point is thus produced (p. 842) ! 



The music and dancing of the Ne- 

 gritos are especially in^c.esting. Many 

 of them know ho-*'^ :r make and to play 

 both the bamboo n^se-flute and a kind of 

 jews'-harp made from bamboo. Some 

 of them use crude stringed instruments 

 fashioned from single joints nf bamboo, 

 the strings being cut from the outer 

 layer of wood, to which their ends re- 

 main attached, and being raised up by 

 means of "bridges." The distribution of 

 the several kinds of musical instruments 



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generation is more promising than the present 

 but even the children carrj^ weapons 



above mentioned is more or less local, 

 but the bronze tom-tom, or "gansa," is 

 in universal use, although some Negritos 

 play it with a drumstick, while others 

 beat it with their hands. Many of their 

 dances are pantomimic. Their singing is 

 often weird in the extreme. It would be 

 idle to attempt to describe it ; only phono- 

 graphic records could do it partial jus- 

 tice (see page 834). 



DANCKS 



There are many stories current to the 

 effect that Negritos are often to be met 



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