. The earth and its inhabitants .. . sixteenth century they were beginning to overrun the Philippine Archipelago, and but for the intervention of the Spaniards there can be no doubt that the Tagals would at present be Mohammedans. Piracy in these waters was not entirely destroyed till the latter half of the present century by the Spanish occu- pation of the Mindanao seaboard and the Sulu Archipelago. The pagan populations, often confounded by the Spaniards under the general name of Igorrotes, still form a considerable section of the inhabitants both in Luzon and Mindanao. The Igorrotes, proper


. The earth and its inhabitants .. . sixteenth century they were beginning to overrun the Philippine Archipelago, and but for the intervention of the Spaniards there can be no doubt that the Tagals would at present be Mohammedans. Piracy in these waters was not entirely destroyed till the latter half of the present century by the Spanish occu- pation of the Mindanao seaboard and the Sulu Archipelago. The pagan populations, often confounded by the Spaniards under the general name of Igorrotes, still form a considerable section of the inhabitants both in Luzon and Mindanao. The Igorrotes, properly so called, dwell east of the Ilocos, in the 17—0


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