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Title: Philippine life in town and country
Year: 1905 (1900s)
Authors: LeRoy, James A. (James Alfred), 1875-1909
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Publisher: New York : Putnam
Contributing Library: Robarts - University of Toronto
Digitizing Sponsor: University of Toronto

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the archipelago. In unexploredportions of north-east and south-east Luzon, ineastern Mindanao, in Mindoro and parts of Pala-wan, and in certain of the islets bordering uponthese larger geographical divisions, the Negrito-Malay intermixture is often a helpful explanationof racial variations that are noted, though it is tobe exploited with caution. But, except for theanthropologist, these traces of Negrito influenceare of slight importance. Everywhere, the Ne-grito has given way before the Malay; even in thelittle bands wherein his stock is preserved almostin its purity, his primitive language cannot betraced, but only a word here and there gives ahint of what was his form of speech before heborrowed the language of his encroaching Malayneighbours. How far there was intermingling, racial orsocial, of the Malays of the lowlands and those ofthe hills,—the Pre-Malays we may say, to adopt aconvenient term,—prior to the coming of theSpaniards, is a matter not easy to settle nor im- 9t%.
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Racial Origins and Blends 29 portant. We may suspect that the milder low-lander has come more closely into contact withhis ruder, more vigorous brother since the be-ginning of Spanish domination than before.Always, especially in the less-settled and devel-oped regions, the fringe of distinction betweenthem and their communities widens, with thetendency to merge all distinctions gradually.The line of differentiation between those peopleswho have come under the Spanish influence andthose who, both from geographical situation andinclination, resisted Christianisation, remains,however, perfectly well marked. Most mixturehas occurred, it would seem, in those smallerislands or wilder parts of the large islands wheremissionary efforts never gained so fully the upperhand and there was a tendency always for thelowlander natives to flee from the bells andseek a more unconstrained life in the forests andhills. The Remo?itadosy or Remounted, rene-gades, in friar-phraseology, are found in unde-vel

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