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in Mindoro the sole remnant of a pre-existing land which 
was at one time unconnected with the great Malay 
islands, and probably prolonged to the east and south. 
6. Inhabitants. 
The Philippines are inhabited, so far as the indigenous 
population is concerned, by two distinct races of men— 
the Negrito and the Malayan. Ethnologists are for the 
most part agreed in looking upon the former as the 
remnant of the aboriginal inhabitants of the group, who 
have been gradually supplanted and driven to the moun¬ 
tains by the more civilised and capable Malays. That 
this invasion took place at a very remote period there is 
every reason to believe. 
The Negritos are a diminutive, dark race, with crisp 
and woolly hair and a facial appearance of a Negroid 
type. They are found in Luzon, Mindoro, Negros, Panay, 
and Mindanao ; probably in Palawan according to Marche, 
and possibly in Zebu. The pure race is now rare. Their 
total numbers are put by Blumentritt at 20,000, an 
estimate only 5000 short of that given by Crawfurd 
forty years ago. Although wild, and living in districts 
for the most part remote from civilisation, they have 
mixed very largely with the pagan Malay tribes, and 
traces of Negrito blood are very frequently to be seen. 
In the pure Negrito the height is said to average 4 ft. 
10 in., but Semper’s estimate is two or three inches less. 
The skull is brachycephalic, the chest small, the legs 
without calves, and the feet turned inwards. Their 
prognathous and deeply-lined faces give them an ape-like 
appearance. The nose is broad and flat, and the nostrils 
dilated, and the slender build and small size of the body 
