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ting across the north-central part of the island, and thence into 

 the mountain cluster to the northeast, there is an area occupied 

 by Bukidnons (people of the mountains) . They occupy the same 

 relative position to the people of the low country as do the 

 mountaineers of eastern Tennessee and North Carolina to the 

 people of the Piedmont Plateau. They comprise, for the most 

 part, Visayans who have been pushed back into the mountains for 



Visayans 



Bukidnons 



Negritos 



Fig. 2. Distribution of tribes in Panay. 



one cause or another, their language becoming somewhat modi- 

 fied. At two points along the crest of the cordillera, the one 

 in the extreme south and the other in the center of the cordillera, 

 in the almost inaccessible region of Mount Baloy, there are two 

 small areas said to be occupied by Negritos, the original in- 

 habitants of the Philippines. 



We have here then an excellent example of the influence of 

 topography and geology upon the distribution of the peoples. 

 These three groups, Negritos, Bukidnons, and Visayans, are 



