THE B A ST E It N* A I IC HIP K L AGO. 



likfl name, where M^dlnm w:is killed in 1521 ; ZriuhHinija, at ih* western 

 extremity of Mindanao ; Stutl, on tin* w^t* and Ajmrri on the north 

 cuaat of Luzon. 



This Archipelago, stretching for 200 mile-? in a pontic curve from 



Minim: h- u-.n 3i -,-a,.i rciiiity of liorinio. cutupriMja the three 



gnmps of B isVsm in the east, SAfA proper iti the centre-, and Taici- 

 Tr^r/ in the west. Until 187G the whole chain fnnin.'d an inde- 

 pendent State under a Mohammedan sultan j but in that year Hie 

 Spaniards occupied Basilari, incorporating it with the Philippines, 

 and at the nutufi time compelled Sultan Mnhriwmed-Yam&l&l-Aliim 

 to accept their protectorate, lie now resides at JtfaMuit, hi* former 

 cftpittl* Ftangpi, having been destroyed, by the Spaniards, (tad amee 

 ralli ed by n new ntalion in a more healthy site. The district of 

 fvihi tliiimd by him in Xnrlh Hnmeo now farms ] -:j r I nf l!n^ Rritish 

 settlement in that region, Inn territory being thtw reduced to the 

 in«ul«r gruiip-* nf Sulii und T:iwi-TawL Tin- two largest island*, 

 1 ■■ .1 li nljout 3o miles long, nnd from 3 to 10 broad, are fertile unci 

 partly covered with U-nk. sapim, eocuti ami areea palm ft Tobacco, 

 recently inirudiurd by the German liurm-o Company, thriving w«H. 

 (Gmllcmurd.) 



To the Philippines also belongs politically the small Bwhi, or 

 f'./'f. L-riMip bi'twoen Bal my an ami FunniM*. J)i>i'<*v«rcd by 

 1 lumpier in 1087, it was occupied in 1763 by the Spaniards, who 

 maintain a wnall establishment on (Grafton iateU There h a con- 

 niiN'Mlile Malay population, who cultivate yum.*, bataia.<s pineapple*, 

 and other fniita of One flnvotir. Tin- U.miiiii-'aiis luve a *nii:i4L ••n 

 Hataii, a hiijrJi pyramidal inland, which gives an alternative name to 

 the whole group. 



It OCEANIC DIVISION. 



CELEBES— THE .MOLUCCA AND HANPA GKOUr*. 



The reasons for constituting this region,, which fills up nearly 

 the whole apjict: htawi-en IWnuo hit! >»V.v * !i;mea, a separate division 

 of the Eastern Archipelugo, distinct both from the Asiatic and 



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