The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1901-09-15

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low and white are ali there, pure, or mixed
in binary. ternary and quaternary combi-
nations. You have conquered and annexed
a living museum Of ethnology. containing
more souls Shan did the western hemi-
sphere at the discovery. The following
table exhibits their distribution:
Luzon and nhighboring islands. ....3 Coz, 900
MindorO and vicinity .................. ZZ3,OO
Nisayas archipelago ..---.--'.-.-..-..z'e $500
Calamianes and Palawan ............ 1900
Sulu islands and Basilan... 10000
Total ..................700 DOL 900
In a total area Of 10000 square miles the
densest population is In Mindanao, sixty
two TO the square mile; the smallest in
Palawan. FIVE to the square mile; while
that Of Luzor is thirty-three to the square
mile
THE BLACKS.
There are two kinds of negroes IN
the islands, native tribes and Africans.
The former are Negritoes, or little negroes,
called locally Aetas or Atlas. from the Ma
lay word hitAm, black. Similar folk live
In the Malay peninsula under the name
of Sakais, and in the Andaman
islands as Mincopies. One ethnolo-
gist VIII tell you that these Negritoes
are merely Impoverished Papuans. while
Others strenuousIy hold that they are the
modern remnant Of a race Of pigmies or
dwarfs, the missing link, the little" people
who once owned the earth.
At any rate you bought about 10000 OF
these tiny savages. averaging only four
feet ten inches in height. These are to be
found in small groups away from civillza-
ton, in the center OF LuZon; you may STUN
bic on them also IN Mindoro. Panay, Ne
gros and in the northeastern part Of Min
danao. They are extremely shy, live a de-
graded life and literally have for the ages
been Ishmaelites. The Aetas clothe them
selves in the climate, have few tools, uten-
sils or arts. and trade by deposit. as the
moonshiners are said to do in the Tennes-
see mountains. That is, they place what
they have to sell at a spot agreed upon and
go away. The next day, when they return.
the goods have been removed. and some
thing they crave has been left instead. In
political matters they would not know the
difference between the Constitution and
the flag, and they pay no tribute to Caesar.
In few parts of Luzon they are crossed
with Tagals and are agriculturists. In
Mindanao there is a powerful tribe called
Atlas. who may be brown-black. and the
same name is given to mixed Vicols and
Aetas in southeastern Luzon.
The African blacks in the Philippines are
cousins many times removed OF those in the
United States, descendants OF the unfor-
tunate captives who for more than three
hundred years were carried by the Span
iards TO all their colonies. They fem no
separate settlements. and their inf nee on
The mass OF population has not been salu-
f,.~y. They are here mentioned to make
.oEod the saying that the blood of all
mankind flows in Filipino veins. An eth
biological table OF the negro slaves involved
in the colonization OF the Philippines would
show that the white mans burden" there
had representatives from all negroid
Africa.
THE BROWNS.
There are two kinds OF brown people in
our new islands, namely the Polynesian
browns, resembling Hawaiians, and Ma
layan browns. more plentiful everywhere
IN the group.
Inasmuch as the population OF seven mil
lions is almost wholly Malayan brown, pure
mixed, some care is needed in order to
comprehend II. Let II be assumed that the
little negroes were in the islands first it is
not difficult TO follow this with the hypoth-
esis that early in the course of those mi
grations that carried the Indonesian browns
all over the Pacific the Philippines were
both resting place and wayside station.
F. Blumentritt. the Austrian ethnologlst.
finds three brown migrations-that of the
head hunters, 200 B. c.; a second. to which
the ancestors Of Tagals, Visayas. Vicols.
IlOcanOs and other advanced tribes belong.
1OO-500 A D.. bringing alphabets and liter
allure; and a third. Islamitic, or Moro.
from Borneo into the SuIu islands and
MindanaO, in the fourteenth and fifteenth
centuries A. D., brought to an end by the
Spaniards. To the first migration have
been assigned the Igorrotes. Apayaos and
Zambales. and later the CataIanganes.
1rayas and Tinguianes. all in Luzon. names
frequently occurring in the newspapers.
NirchOw, the German savant, basing his
conclusions on the finding Of crania in an
cient caves, holds to a still older brown
people, whose arrival was between that OF
the head hunters and that OF the negritoes.
This Iong-cOntinued brown migration has
been gathering into itself the blood OF all
other peoples with which it came in con-
tact. giving brown black, brown-yellow.
brown white, brown-red and brown-yeIIow-
white as the present result.
THE RED PEOPLE.
uc ACus NuHpcI-ColoTeOs OF American
type, standing nearest TO the brown In the
chronological lists and in biological char
acters, began TO go TO the Philippines about
the year 1870. and continued their visits
during two hundred years or more The
migrants did not belong 10 the wild hunting
and fishing tribes OF North America but
10 the more cultured nations Of Mexico.
Some OF them returned and introduced into
the New World the arts they had learned
abroad. but more of them remained in their
new home and pTacticed there the native
arts, much TO the confounding of modern
ethnolOgists.
There arc accounts OF small settlements
OF these Mexican Indians in the Philippines
and collectors both in Mexico and the
Islands are discovering similarities that can
be accounted for only by the fact of these
interminglings across the Pacific.
YELLOW.
The yellow races exist in the archipelago
as pure blOOds and as mixtures of Chinese
japanese, Siamese. Cambodians. etc. In the
Chinese YOU obtain Sinite and Mongol; in
the japanese a complex race with a large
ingredient from western Asia, as divided
stockings, stilted shoes and many elements
o. speech attest. Practically all Asia is in
the Philippines. 1t is entirely impossible to