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arrows are always poisoned. Their intelligence is of a 
very low type, and according to Montano they are unable 
to count above five. Excepting where they have become 
partly civilised, they are more or less nomadic of habit. 
Such religion as they have would appear to consist chiefly 
of a sort of ancestor-worship. They are monogamists 
without exception. The chief or headman is chosen 
from among the oldest and most respected of the tribe. 
Circumcision is universally practised. Little appears to 
be known of their language, except that spoken by them 
in some parts of Luzon. Oscar Peschel and some other 
ethnologists class the Negrito with the Papuan, an 
opinion little likely to be shared by those who are well 
acquainted with the latter race. The slender build, flat 
nose, diminutive stature, and gentle retiring manners 
render such a classification impossible. Mr. J. Barnard 
Davis, from the examination of three fine crania, considers 
the Negrito to be distinct from any other race. Taking 
all their physical characters into consideration, they seem 
more nearly to resemble the Andaman islanders and the 
Semangs of the Malay Peninsula than any other existing 
peoples. 
To the Spaniard of the present day the people of 
Malayan stock who inhabit the Philippines are known as 
Indios, Infieles, and Moros —an ecclesiastical rather than 
scientific classification. The Indios are all those who 
have come under Spanish influence, and are professed 
Christians; the Infixes are the wilder pagans of the 
interior who have always rebelled against Spanish rule, 
and the Moros are the Sulus and other Mohammedan 
tribes occupying south-west Mindanao, the Sulu group, 
and part of Palawan. The people included in this 
nomenclature have certain characteristics in common 
which are collectively typical of the Malay race, namely, 
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