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CHAPTER YIII. 
MH^DORO, NEGROS, MINDANAO, SXJLU AND BORNEO. 
MIffDORO ; '^ABtBTIES OF RACE— THB BAKOAN'S — ^rRIKl^DLT &ELATI0!^S 
WITH THK BKOWi* ITEIBKS — KEGaOa ; HADITS OF THB -WOOLLY- 
HAIRKD TRIBES— MIM DAS AO AXtLV '» THE ISLAND FORMERLY OCCTJ- 
t-IED EXCLUSIVELY BY FAPUASS »BSCE>iT OF THE REI6>'INa 
tAiilLT FB.OM A PAPTJA3f CHIEF — FKESEKT CONPlTIOJf — B0B*fEO ; 
flUPFOSED NOK-EXiareNCE OF PAPUAX THIDES IV THE lyTEttlOB^ — 
WOOLLT-HAIBEtJ f lUUiC IX THE IdOUNTAms OF THE EAST COAST— 
MB. DALTOX'S OESCKIPTIOJf 0^ A WILD RACE — DDTCH AUTHORITIES 
Oii THE EXlSTE^fiCE OF PAP DANS IN BORN'EO. 
MiNDORO. In this island (wticli lies immediately 
adjacent to the south-west coaat of Luzon, being separated 
only by a narrow strait), the USegritos are eongregated in 
a mountainous district^ called Bangan, where they live on 
friendly terms with the Mnngiiianes, or wild tribes of the 
brown race, by whom they arc surroundetl, although very 
little intercourse sub,sists between them ; so that here, at 
lest, the system of sacrificing a neighbour, to avenge the 
death of one of their own tribe, seems to have been 
abandoned. Indeed the practice is apparently only per- 
sisted in by two or three of the more remote and savage 
