The people of the Philippines, their religious progress and preparation for spiritual leadership in the Far East,

THE PEOPLE OF THE PHILIPPINES

I. Papuans.
During a period of unknown length a few tall black Papuans
kept wandering across from New Guinea and other islands.
They wore septum sticks in their noses, and often wore no
clothing save a few ornaments.
The few Papuans who may still be found on the eastern
and southern coasts of the archipelago, are entirely negligible.
2. Indonesians. Class A.
This and the next class present marked affinities to the
tall races of Southern Asia. They are the tallest people that
ever came to the Islands before the whites, running from
five feet four inches to six feet two inches in height. They
have rather light skins, slender bodies, sharp thin faces, high
aquiline noses, thin lips, high broad foreheads, and deep-set
eyes. The Caucasian strain in this type is unmistakable.
3. Indonesians. Class B.
The Class B Indonesians are later arrivals, and have a
higher form of civilization. They have relatively darker
skins, thick-set bodies, large rectangular faces, thick large
noses with round nostrils, large mouths with somewhat thick
lips, and large round eyes.
Perhaps the Indonesians brought no women with them.
At any rate they took their wives largely from the more
promising of the pygmies. The dog was their only domestic
animal. They made fire by rubbing together two pieces of
bamboo; their food they had to cook in pieces of bark or
bamboo, as they knew nothing of pottery. They could not
make baskets or weave. Their bodies they tattooed, and ornamented with sweet-smelling flowers, grasses and shells. Being
very sensitive to pleasant odors, they gathered many natural
perfumes.
The Indonesians intermingled with the later comers who
are yet to be mentioned, and are not found today in a pure
state.4
4 It will be interesting to note where their blood predominates.
Northern Luzon: Type "A" Indonesians are in Apayao, Abra, Western
Kalinga, Bontok, Eastern Ifugao and among the Western Ilongots.