Table 1.—Total Population, Classified as Civilized and Wild, by Provinces and Comandancias.

Province or ComandanciaTotal PopulationCivilizedWild
Philippine Islands7,635,4266,987,686647,740
Abra51,86037,82314,037
Albay240,326239,434892
Ambos Camarines239,405233,4725,933
Antique134,166131,2452,921
Basilan30,1791,33128,848
Bataán46,78745,1661,621
Batangas257,715257,715----
Benguet22,74591721,828
Bohol269,223269,223----
Bulacán223,742223,327415
Cagayán156,239142,82513,414
Cápiz230,721225,0925,629
Cavite134,779134,779----
Cebú653,727653,727----
Cotabato125,8752,313123,562
Dapitan23,57717,1546,423
Dávao65,49620,22445,272
Ilocos Norte178,995176,7852,210
Ilocos Sur187,411173,80013,611
Iloílo410,315403,9326,383
Isabela76,43168,7937,638
Joló51,3891,27050,119
La Laguna148,606148,606----
La Union137,839127,78910,050
Lepanto-Bontoc72,7502,46770,283
Leyte388,922388,922----
Manila City219,928219,928----
Marinduque[12]51,67451,674----
Masbate43,67543,675----
Mindoro39,58232,3187,264
Misamis175,683135,47340,210
Negros Occidental308,272303,6604,612
Negros Oriental201,494184,88916,605
Nueva Ecija134,147132,9991,148
Nueva Vizcaya62,54116,02646,515
Pampanga223,754222,6561,098
Pangasinán397,902394,5163,386
Paragua29,35127,4931,858
Paragua Sur6,3451,3594,986
Rizal150,923148,5022,421
Romblón52,84852,848----
Sámar266,237265,549688
Siassi24,56229724,265
Sorsogón120,495120,45441
Surigao115,11299,29815,814
Tarlac135,107133,5131,594
Tawi Tawi14,6389314,545
Tayabas[13]153,065150,2622,803
Zambales104,549101,3813,168
Zamboanga44,32220,69223,630

From this it will be apparent to the reader that the Judge takes some rather unusual liberties even with such information as was available nine years before he finished his book. I have quoted the actual table in full, as it is useful for reference.

In the middle of the page referred to by Blount there begins another table showing “Total Population, Classified as Civilized and Wild, by Islands.” This table occupies four and one-half solid pages, and therefore does not closely resemble the one foisted on the public by him.

It includes 323 islands, from which the Judge has selected eight which happened to suit his purpose, giving it to be clearly understood that the islands which he has not included are “rocks sticking out of the water” and “little daubs you see on the map” “eliminated from the equation as wholly unessential to a clear understanding of the problem of governing the Islands.”

Among the “rocks” and “little daubs” thus eliminated are Mindoro with an area of thirty-eight hundred fifty-one square miles, and Palawan with an area of four thousand twenty-seven square miles. Of the islands included, Leyte has twenty-seven hundred twenty-two square miles; Cebu, seventeen hundred sixty-two square miles; and Bohol, fourteen hundred eleven square miles. Incidentally, neither Leyte, Cebu nor Bohol have any non-Christian inhabitants at all, while all of Mindoro and Palawan, with the exception of narrow broken strips along the coast are populated by wild people, hence it is convenient for him to ignore them.

In spite of his suggestion that it is not necessary to use the pencil in connection with his table, I ventured to do so, in connection with his statement that “Luzón and the Visayan Islands contain nearly 7,000,000 of people.” On his own showing they contain 6,158,311.

And now for the real facts. At the time the census enumeration was made Apayao had been crossed by a white man only once and that more than a hundred years ago. Extensive portions of Ifugao and Bontoc, and the greater part of Kalinga, were unexplored, as were the interior of Mindoro and most of the interior of Palawan, to say nothing of immense regions in Mindanao. As a matter of fact, we do not to-day know with any accuracy the number of Mangyans in Mindoro, nor the number of Tagbanuas in Palawan, but it has been conclusively demonstrated that the latter were greatly underestimated by the census enumerators. There will be found in the appendix[14] a table giving in detail the present accepted estimate of the non-Christian population of the islands, which numbers at least a million seventy thousand.