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tion, and who yet tremble m they relate the circumatancea, 
describing these invaders m having fearful conntenanceSj, 
thm transmitting to their children the panic terror which 
the number of the Moros excited in them. Those few 
who escaped, congregated in the ncigbbom-hood of a 
small savage tribe, which, without doubt, inhabited the 
central mountains from time immemorial, and whose 
district, lying in the northern part of the island, is 
designated among the natives by the nauie of Bangan. 
The descendants of these fugitives arc the people who 
now constitute the interior population of Mindoro, living 
independent of the Spanish authority, and who are dis- 
tinguisked by the generic name of * ^ilanguianea.* They 
differ from the primitive tribe alluded to above, in not 
speaking their idiom, which is unknown to us, unless it 
be pure Tagala (the chief dialect of the brown tribes of 
Luzon, and some of the neighbouring islands), and after 
the first moments of panic were over, they separated from 
them. Indeed, the Mangnianes relate a thousand fan- 
tastic tales about the customs of this mountain tribe, 
and have left them, alone and isolated, in their lurking- 
places."* 
The good missionary little thought, that when wi-iting 
.the above paragraph, he was furnishing the best piece of 
evidence in favour of an injured and degraded race of his 
fellow-men, that had ever been kid before their more 
ciiiliaed brethreii, 
IsLA DOS Negkos. — Of the central group of the Philip* 
pines, consistmg of Panay, Negroa, Samar, Leyte, Masbate, 
* " Journal of tho Indiaa Archipelago," p. 577. 
