142 NOTICES OF BOOKS. 
The great portion of the natives or Indians who inhabit the 
lowlands of the islands belong to the tribes or races which are 
distinguished as Tagalocs, Bisayas or Vishayas, and Bicols. 
They are all branches from the Malay stock, with a somewhat 
marked approach to the Chinese type. 
Though I have said that Dr. Monvano has no theory of his 
own to support, of course he hasa system which he developes. 
He follows those who regard the people of Malaysia and all that 
portion of the great archipelago to the west of Flores, Ceram 
and Gilolo (the limit of the Papuan race) as belonging to three 
distinct races, viz.:—the Negritos, the Indonesians, and the 
Malays. Dr. Monrano limits the application of this system 
to the countries which he visited. As he saw very little of the 
Malay Peninsula, that portion of his work is incomplete. 
Making every allowance for the changes and admixtures to 
which every race is subject, the author gives the followimg idea 
of the system. The islands are supposed to be divided into 
three zones. The Negritos, occupy the internal or mountain 
region to which they have been driven by the Indonesian inva- 
sion. ‘The Indonesians occupy the central zone, where they 
have been driven in their turn by the Malay races, which almost 
exclusively occupy the external zone and are spread on all the 
coasts of the Indian Archipelago as far as Flores. 
So far the idea is simple enough, but it soon becomes compli- 
eated, even when applied to the Philippine Islands alone. 
There we have the Negrito in the mountains, but in most of 
the islands there is not much trace of the Indonesian. We 
find ourselves in presence of a Malay race divided into three 
peoples, as we may call them, s peaking three different languages, 
though all of undoubted Malay origin. There are the “Bicols, 
the Tagalocs, and the Bisayas. 'T hese form the bulk of the po- 
pulation of the islands. The N egritos are rapidly disappearing 
and do not number in Luzon and Mindanao more than 500 
souls. The Bicols are close on half-a-million; the Tagaloes 
about twelve hundred thousand ; and the Bisayas two million 
and a half. Dr. Monrano confines his observations to the 
Indonesians of Mindanao, and enumerates them as about 
fifty thousand. , 
The three great tribes of Malays already described are con- 
