MINDOUO. 
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was insertetl daring the same year.* The allusions to the 
Bangans are merely incidental, as the author of the 
account, whose labours were chiefly confined to the more 
southern portion of the islandj had seen no individual 
belonging to the tribe. The following is an extract ; 
" The most populous (of the Manguian villages) contain 
two hundred or three hoBdi-ed savages with their familieB. 
Tlicse villages hold commimieatio'h with each other, but 
tliis is not so constant or intimate as to prevent a thousand 
incredible absurdities being circnkted among themselves 
respecting theb neighbours. For instance, the Manguians, 
who live in the neigh bonrhood of Mansalay, in the south- 
eastern part of the island, state that the people of Bangan 
permit no stranger to enter their district, unless he is 
accompanied and introduced by one of their people ; that 
when they have large families of children, and find diffi- 
culty in supporting them, the parents abandon them in 
the woodsj or on pathways leading to other villages ^ that 
their marriages are attended with extravagant and ridi- 
culous ceremonies, which decency withholds me from 
refemng to, and which ai'e described with such ridicule 
and aversion, that one would suppose that they were 
speaking of another race of people, whom they had never 
seen." 
Again : The invasion of the pirates (Lantfnsj or 
Mohammedan natives of Mindanao), must have been 
exceedingly bloody and destructive. Individuals are yet 
in existence, whom we have heard refer to the smallnesa 
of the number of those who escaped the general destruc- 
* " Jotimal of the Indian Archipctago," vol. m, p. 761. 
