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SCIENCE. 



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the Cliincse pirate, Li Mahon, whose fleet was 

 destroyed alter his attack on Manila in 1574. 

 The fugitives escaped to the mountains ; and 

 for more than three ciMituries these wild hy- 

 brids between Chinese and Indian have <lerK'd 

 the power of Spain. They have many dialects, 

 but tlic Igorrote proper is spoken b^- over ten 



habit northern Iloeos. Tiiey arc of liner shape, 

 lighter color, with less obliipie eyes, and more 

 aquiline nose. In their habits, music, and love 

 for porcelain vases, they resemble the Japanese, 

 and liave probably descended from the union 

 of crews of junks, driven to Luzon b}- the 

 northern monsoon, and the neighborinif tribes. 



thousand people. They are not whollj- savage, 

 except in the remote mountainous districts. 

 Their customs are simple antl patriarchal. It 

 is onl}' of late years that they have consented 

 to bury their dead, instead of exposing them 

 to <Iecay in the air. 



The name of Tingitians ho.n been given to 

 the hybrids of Japanese and Indians who in- 



They number over nine thousand- in twenty 

 villages. Their dress and aims are much like 

 those of the Igorrotes, but the}' have borrowed 

 fi'om their enemies the Gaddans the custom of 

 preserving as tro|)hics the heads of those killed 

 in battle. They arc said to mnmmify their 

 dead by heat. 



The Gaddans and Ifuiujos, numbering about 



