like brutes. Next day the same thing happens, and they sleep in
another stopping-place. All their customs are the savage and brutish
ones characteristic of barbarians; and they recognize no other laws,
letters, or government than those of the heads of their families,
at the most. They only care about defending their own territories,
upon which they have lively wars, some Negrillos against others,
with great mortality on both sides. At such times no natives dare
enter the mountains, for the Negrillos kill them all, whether friend
or enemy. Their most common arms are shield, bow, and arrow. If by a
miracle any Christian is found among these people, and if perhaps the
religious have reared some of them in Christianity from childhood,
it very rarely occurs that he does not flee to the mountains whence
he originated, when he becomes grown.

394. One of the islands of this archipelago which has a name, is the
one called the island of Negros, because of the abundance of those
people. It is located between the two islands of Zebu and Panay, and
in it is established a Christian and civilized government. But at one
point of this island, which lies toward the west, and is called the
point of Sojoton, there is a great number of the said blacks, and not
one Christian. In the center of the island is a much greater number;
therefore, it is along the beach where the Jesuit fathers and the
seculars administer, and where the Visayans or Pintados are settled.

395. The origin of these Negrillos is thought to have been interior
India, or citra Gangen, which was called Etyopia; for it was settled
by Ethiopian negroes, whence went out the settlers to African Etyopia,
as Father Colin proves in detail. Consequently, there being on the
mainland of India nations of negroes, and even in Nueva Guinea so many
that their first discoverers gave the island that name because of the
multitude of these people; and since the distance from those places
to these islands and the Philippine archipelago is not great; nor was
the land [of Nueva Guinea] which was five hundred leguas in length,
entirely settled with blacks--whom the ships of Viceroy Don Antonio
de Mendoza found in one of the capes of the strait of Magallanes:
those blacks could very easily pass from one island to another, and
their chief abode with their own name might be the island of Negros,
as we have remarked. Thence they could extend afterward to dominate
and settle the rest of the islands,