[3] An untranslatable term of respect and affection given by the fighting men of northern Luzón to rulers whom they like.
[4] A designation applied to a political division of less importance than a province, governed by a military officer.
[5] This statement proved to be untrue. They number about twenty-five thousand.
[6] Not so serious a matter as it may seem, when houses are made of grass and can be speedily rebuilt.
[7] Bronze timbrels.
Chapter XXII
The Government of the Non-Christian Tribes (Continued)
The province of Mindoro includes numerous small islands, all peopled by Tagálogs, and the main island of Mindoro, which has a narrow broken fringe of Tagálog settlements along its coast. Its whole interior is populated, so far as it is inhabited at all, by the Mangyans, a primitive semi-nomadic tribe which is of Malayan origin but has considerable Negrito blood. No one knows even approximately how many of them there are, for although the island has been crossed in several different places, much of it is still quite unexplored. In most of the interior regions thus far visited the population is very sparse, but one quite thickly settled district has been found. It is believed that the Mangyans number something like 15,000.
The Filipino settlements were so disorderly, filthy, and unhealthy that the energies of the first governor, Captain R. G. Offley, and those of his successor, Captain Louis G. Van Schaick, were to a large extent expended in efforts for the betterment of the Tagálogs. It is a pleasure to record the fact that these efforts met with a very large degree of success.