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BEAN AND PLANTA. 



origin in a different way. A company oJ: East Indian soldiers, stationed 

 at Cainta dining the British occupation of Manila, was overlooked when 

 the British embarked and they settled and remained there. 



It seems to me that botli suppositions may be true. The town of 

 Cainta was originally settled by East Indians, and a few men from 

 among the British troops of East Indian origin remained when the 

 British evacuated Manila. 



The inliabitants of Cainta impressed me as Ijeing tall, black-skinned, 

 long-nosed, and open-eyed in contrast with the inliabitants of Taytay 

 who are small, bro\vn-skinned, short-nosed, and not open-eyed. Some of 

 the men I saw in' Cainta were more than 180 centimeters in height, 

 and the skin of many was of so dark a brown as to appear black. The 

 face is large and long and the nose is notably high and long, the eyes 

 large, with wide open lids that give the peculiarly attractive expression 

 to the countenance which is often seen among East Indians. Wiatever 

 may have been the proximate origin of the people, I lielieve there can be 

 no doubt as to their Indian origin ultimately. 



In any event, they probably settled in Cainta and married Filipinos. 

 Their descendants then resemble both Indians and Filipinos, with 

 probablj^ a preponderance of the former ; at least such is the appearance 

 by casual observation, and such is the actual condition as determined by 

 measurements. 



The measurements of 38 men of Cainta give average dimensions that 

 are in almost every part slightly different from similar dimensions of 

 the men of Taytay, and the differences are invariably in the direction of 

 the European. The a.verage differences are slight, as may be seen by the 

 accompanying list, but they are significant because they are averages and 

 because all the differences simulate the European. 



Table I. — Average dimensions — •physical characters of adiiU males at Cainta, 

 greater or less than men of Taytay. 



Character. 



Centi- 

 meters. 



Character, 



Centi- 

 meters. 



Body: 



—1.43 

 —0.39 

 —2.32 

 -1.15 

 -1.82 

 -1.33 

 —1.00 

 —0.18 

 -0.89 

 -2,42 

 —0.26 

 —0.65 

 —1.71 

 --2. 51 



Head: 



-1-0.10 

 -0.26 

 +0,13 

 —0,04 

 -0,37 

 —0, 11 











UmbiUcal height _. 







Chin height 









-0,19 







0,05 







+0,03 

 +0,04 ' 

 -0,10 . 

 +0,09 

 +0,30 1 

 —0,36 1 



















.Acromion height 



Nasion hair line distance 



