Evening star., 1901-09-14

| mixed in binary, ternary and quaternary
combinations. You have conquered and
annexed living museum of ethnology con-
! tanning more souls than did the western
hemisphere at the discovery.
The following table exhibits their distri-
button:
Luzon and neighboring islands ..... 3, COO 900
Mlndoro and vicinity. y................... 22o.oo0
visayas archipelago. 100000
Calimisnes and PaIawan an.............. 72.ooO
sulu Islands and Basilan. ............... 10000
Total. l.................. 7,Oo1 900
In a total area of 100000 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 Luzon is thirty-three to the square
mile.
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
Malay word hitam-black Similar folk
live in the Malay peninsula under the name
of Sakais, and in the Andaman islands as
Mincopies. One ethnologist will tell you
that these negritoes are merely impover-
ished Papuans, while others strenuously
hold that they are the modern remnant Of
a race of pigmies 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 civili-
zation, In the center of Luzon; you may
stumble on them also in Mindoro. Panay,
Negros and in. the northeastern part Of
degraded life and literally have for the
ages been Ishmaelites The Aetas clothe
themselves in the climate, have few tools,
utensils or arts and trade by deposits. as
nessee mountains. That is, they place
what they have to sell at spot agreed
upon and go away. The next day when
they return the goods have been removed
instead. In political matters they would
not know the difference between the Con-
stitution and the flag, and they pay no
tribute to Caesar.
In few parts Of Luzon they are cross
ed 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 un-
fortunate captives who for more than three
hundred years were carried by the Span
iards to all their colonies They form no
separate settlements and their influence
on the mass of population has not been sal
utary. They are here mentioned to make
good the saying that the blood of all man
kind flows in Filipino VEINS An ethnolog-
ical table of the negro slaves involved
show that the white mans burden" there
had representatives from all negroid Af-
rica.
Brown.-There are two kinds of brown
Polynesian browns, resembling Hawaiians,
and Malayan browns, more plentiful ev-
erywhere in the group.
Inasmuch the population of seven
millions is almost wholly Malayan brown,
pure and mixed, some care is needed in
order to comprehend it. Let it be assumed
that the little negroes were in the islands
first it Is not difficult to follow this with
the hypothesis that early in the course
Of those migrations that carried the In
donesian-browns all over the Pacific, the
Philippines were both resting place and
wayside station.
Old Brown Blood.
F. Blumentritt, the Austrian ethnologist.
finds three brown migrations, that of the
head hunters, 200 B. c.; second, to which
the ancestors Of Tagals. Visayas, Vicols,
nocanos and other advanced tribes be-
long, 100000 A. D.. bringing alphabets
and literature; and third. Islamitic, or
Moro, from Borneo into the Sulu Islands
and Mindanao, in the 14th and 18th CEN
turies A. D.. brought to an end by the
Spaniards. To the first migration have
been assigned the Igorrotes, Apayaos and
Zambales, and later, the catalanganes,
Irayas and Tinguianes. all in Luzon. names
frequently occurring in the newspapers.
" the GERMAN SdVdnt, DdS1ng his
conclusions on the finding Of crania In
ancient caves. holds to a still older brown
people, whose arrival was between that Of
the head hunters and that Of the Ne
gritoes.
This long, 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-yel-
low-whte as the present result.
Red.-The red, cOpper-colOred, or Ameri-
can type. standing nearest to the brown
in the chronological lists and in biological
about the year 1870, and continued their
visits during two hundred years or more.
The migrants did not belong to the wild
hunting and fishing tribes Of North Amer
lea, but to the more cultured nations of
Mexico. Some of them returned and intro
duced into the new world the arts they
had learned abroad, but more of them re-
manned In their new home and practiced
there the native arts, much to the con-
founding Of modern ethnologists
There are accounts of small settlements
Of these Mexican Indians in the Philip
pines and collectors both in Mexico and the
Islands are discovering similarities that can
be accounted for only by the fact of these
intermtnglings across the Pacific.
Yellow.-The yellow races exist in the
archipelago as pure bloods and as mixtures
OF Chinese. Japanese, Siamese, Cambo-
dians. etc. In the Chinese you obtain Sinite
and Mongol; in the Japanese. a complex
race with large ingredient from western
ASIA as divided stockings. stilted shoes and
many elements of speech attest. Practi-
cally all Asia is in the Philippines. 1t is
entirely impossible to set date for the
earliest importation of the yellow element
A long time ago the Chinese anticipated
the Portuguese In the discovery and came
near forestalling the Spaniards In the pos
session Of the islands. 1t is certain that
the founding of Manila, 1870, and the com
ing Of Mexican and Peruvian silver opened
floodgate of migration from the yellow
area which has never closed. The tale of
war and misery that ensued will have to
be omitted.
The Yellow Peril.
The coming Of silver to Manila happened
thus: Spanish fleets could not sail around
Cape Of Good Hope to the Philippines all
the way through Portuguese waters; the
Journey by way Of Magellan straits was
both tedious and dangerous. Hence. 25O
years before any one ever dreamed Of PAN
anna or Nicaragua canals or Tehuantepec
ship railways, the King Of Spain sent an
nually q fleet from Acapulco, Mexico.
straight across to Manila loaded with Span
ish goods and precious metals, and these
were returned through friendly winds and
currents by way of the northwest coast of