The Camden chronicle. (Camden, Tenn.) 1890-current, 1904-07-15

winch G41,I4O are claSSlned as wiz
! and uncivilized, although not without
some knowledge of the domestic arts.
This is the first accurate and com
plete enumeration of the Filipinos
ever made, those undertaken by the
Spanish authorities being largely esti-
mates 1t was taken by the Philip
pine Census Bureau, which was or
ganized by General Sanger.
The enumerators employed were
mostly natives. The schedules were
Atranslated, Transcribed and tabulated
Nby the United States Census Office in
Washington.
General Sanger's report gives the
population of the Philippines by ISL
ands, provinces, municipalities and
barrios 1t is classified also by tribes
and religions.
The tables give separate enumera-
tons for 343 islands which bear
names, and many others are grouped
together unnamed. The most populous
Afsland is Luzon, which contains total
of 3,79S,507, of which 223,5OG are clas-
sified as wild. Panay is next in popu-
lation with 743G46, of which 1888
are Wild Cebu, third, with 592 PAT, all
civilized, and Mindanao is fourth, with
499 1884 of which 252,94O are wild.
Jolo, with 44,71S inhabitants, contains
only 1870 who are civilized, and the
province of Cotabato, with 125,S75
people, has but 2313 civilized.
The city of Manila contains 219,02S
inhabitants, which includes 1901 who
reside on vessels in the harbor, while
AGO live in the limits of the city
walls.
General Sanger says the aborigines
of the Philippines are believed to be
the Negritos, of which $4,000 still re-
main. They are distributed over many
of the different provinces and live in
a primitive state, having no fixed
habitations or occupations, but wander
| about in the forests, living on such
food as they can find. They are very
short in stature, the males averaging
only four feet ten inches and the fe-
males even less. Their color is black,
Their hair wooley and bushy, and
their toes are remarkably prehensile,
ingers
These people, says the report, prob
ably approach as nearly to the con-
ception of primitive man as any people
thus far discovered. Their origin is
shrouded in obscurity, but from the
fact that similar types are found in
the Malay peninsula and on the
ell In Of G
Guided they once occupied the entire
Malay archipelago
Of the other wild tribes in the
islands the most important are the
Igorotes, in northern LuZOn, who are
divided into several branches, with
different names. One Of these
branches, inhabiting the sub-province
of Bontoc. are said to be the most
famous of head hunters. Another
curious tribe of head hunters is the
Ibilao. sometimes called Ilongot, il
the province of Isabella, while il
Mindanao are seventeen wild tribes
nearly all of which have the beliefs
and customs of savages. They no
only take the heads Of vanquishet
enemies. but their hands and heart:
as we'll and offer human sacrifices t.
their deities.
The report divides the civilized
Filipinos into eight tribes, the Bicol
Cagayan. Ilocano, Pampangan, Pan
eastman. Tagalog, Visayan and Fam
balan. the most numerous of which il
the yisayan. While the great mass O.
the people are Malays, and had com
mon origin, there is a difference il
their written and spoken languages
but not much in their customs. Fo
such progress as they had made the.
are indebted, says the report, some
what to the Chinese, with whom the,
came in contact hundreds of years ago
before the arrival of the Spanish, ant
since then to the religious orders
which had contributed largely to thei
civilization and education.
The archipelago was divided int
five dioceses and TAG regular parishes
1O5 mission parishes and 116 missions
Notwithstanding the inestimable ser
vices rendered by the friars, the re
port says, they succeeded in excitin
the bitter antagonism of the Filipinos
which was beyond question a power
full inventive to the revolution of 1896
Now. that the friars land question ha
been settled, it is probable, says Ger
eraI Sanger, that the Roman Catholi
clergy will substitute large numbe
of the friars and that all cause o
agitation on their account will be re
moved.
In a chapter on the Bicol tribe, th