e who carried this faith, and who still rank as the type
of the race, were the seafaring population, living in boats as well
us on the shore, who control the islands of the straits between
Sumatra, the Malay Peninsula, and Borneo. These people received from
the Portuguese the name of Cellates, a corruption of Orang Salat
(Sea Folk). Under the influence of Mohammedanism this race, which
seems to have originated in Sumatra, improved in culture, formed
many settlements and principalities, and because of their seagoing
habits, their enjoyment of trade, and their lust for piracy, carried
their name (Malayu), their language, and their adopted Mohammedan
religion throughout the Malay archipelago. Probably as early as
1300 these adventurers established a colony on northwest Borneo,
opposite the island of Labuan, which colony received the name of
Brunei, from which has been derived the name of the whole island,
Borneo. The island was already inhabited by Malayan tribes of more
primitive culture, of which the Dyak is the best known. From this
settlement of Borneo the Mohammedanized Malay extended his influence
and his settlements to the Sulu archipelago, to Mindanao, to Mindoro,
and to Manila Bay." The people of Suluan, whom Magellan encountered
near Samar, "were almost certainly of the same stock from which the
present great Visayan people are in the main descended. Many things
incline me to believe that these natives had come, in successively
extending settlements, up the west coast of Mindanao from the Sulu
archipelago.... To the present day the physical type and the language,
persisting unchanged in spite of changes of culture, closely relate the
Visayan to the Moro. In addition to these arrivals from the archipelago
of Sulu there was probably a more primitive Malayan population, whom
the later arrivals already had more or less in subjection, as the Moros
even now control the pagans on the mainland of Mindanao.... Thus we may
infer that at the time of the discovery there were on these central
islands of the archipelago, a primitive, tattooed Malayan people,
related on the one hand to the still primitive and pagan tribes of the
Philippines, and on the other hand to the wild head-hunting tribes
of Borneo; and in addition intruding and dominating later arrivals,
who were the seafaring Malays."

Interesting in this connection is the following remark on the Negritos
by Taw Sein Ko, in his "Origin of the Burmese Race," published in