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nas. Ed. Retana, 1893, I, p. 421. [11] Ca-ing-in is a Malayan word for cultivated clearing. [12] The province has recently been divided by act of the Philippine Commission, the northern part above Santa Cruz being joined to Pangasinan. [13] Francisco Canamaque, Boletin de la Sociedad Geografica de Madrid, vol IX, 1880. [14] Diccionario Geografico, etc., de las Islas Filipinas, vol. II, 1850. [15] Canamaque. [16] Zuniga, Estadismo de las Islas Filipinas, 1803. [17] This was evidently the belief of some of the old voyagers. Navarette, whose account of his travels in 1647 is published in Churchill's Collection of Voyages, 1704, said that the people called "Zambales" were great archers and had no other weapons than the bow and arrow. Dr. John Frances Gemelli Careri, who made a voyage around the world, 1693-1697, says in his report (Churchill's Voyages, vol. IV): "This mixing [that is, of Negritos] with the Wild _Indians_ produced the Tribe of _Manghian_ who are Blacks dwelling in the Isles of Mindoro and Mundos [probably Panay], and who peopled the Islands _de los Negros,_ or of Blacks. Some of them have harsh frisled hair like the _African_ and _Angola_ blacks. * * * "The _Sambali,_ contrary to the others, tho' Wild have long Hair, like the other Conquer'd _Indians._ The Wives, of these Savages are deliver'd in the Woods, like She Goats, and immediately wash themselves and the Infants in the Rivers, or other cold Water; which would be immediate Death to _Europeans._ These Blacks when pursu'd by the _Spaniards,_ with the sound of little Sticks, give notice to the rest, that are dispers'd about the Woods, to save themselves by Flight. Their Weapons are Bows and Arrows, a short Spear, and a short Weapon, or Knife at their Girdle. They Poison their Arrows, which are sometimes headed with Iron, or a sharp Stone, and they bore the Point, that it may break in their Enemies Body, and so be unfit to be shot back. For their defense, they use a Wooden Buckler, four Spans long, and two in breadth, which always hangs at their Arm. "Tho' I had much discourse about it, with the Fathers of the Society, and other Missioners, who converse with these Blacks, _Manghians, Mandi_ and _Sambali,_ I could never learn any thing of their Religion; but on the contrary, all unanimously agree they have none, but live like Beasts, and the most that has been seen among the Blacks on the Mountains, has been a round Stone, to which the
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