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communities of Lnzon. The MangumneSj altliotigb a 
mild and industrious people, are so little advanced io 
civili2ation, that European viaitora, who have not hati 
opportunities of personal communication with the Ban- 
gans, often leave the island with the impression, that 
they are only a more savage variety of the same 
race. Indeed a general impression prevails among the 
Spanish priests and missionaries in the PhilippineSj that 
the brown races are the descendants of the Negi-itos ; and 
Mi Mallat, who seems to have derived his ethnographical 
information chiefly from this source, entertains the same 
opinion* But as all speculations of this nature are pur- 
posely avoided in the course of the present work, it need 
only be stated, that all the native tribes of Mindoro, with 
the exception of the Bangans, have been ascertained to 
belong to the brown, or as it may be called here, yellow 
race (for the complexion is generally fairer than in 
Luzon) ; so that the Negritos mentioned by M. Mallat 
as existing in MindorOj* can only be looked for among 
the tribes inhabiting this district. 
The most recent J and perhaps the most full and authentic 
account of the native tribes of IMindoro^ appeared in a 
Spanish journal, the " Diario de I^Ianila/' in August and 
September, 1849 : evidently the production of one of the 
S^ianish missionaries, who have been so zealously employed 
for many years past in extending Christianity through the 
more remote islands of the Philippmes ; and the details 
proved so interesting, that the writer translated it entire 
for the " Journal of the Indian Archipelago," iu which it 
* " Les PliilippiDes," tome n, p. 03- 
