o the other; and it is believable that the
Tagalogs, Pampangos, and other civilized races who were found in
this archipelago, and who were almost alike in language, customs,
bodily proportions, and clothing, as now we see them, came immediately
from Borney, some from some provinces and some from others. That may
account for the little difference that is found among them.

399. It is argued that the Visayans and Pintados--who are the
ones found in the Camarines, Leyte, Samar, Panay, Zebu, and other
neighboring territories--came from the large island of Macasar,
which is very powerful and densely populated. It has its emperor,
who is called Sumbanco, and many petty rulers. The basis of this
argument lies, not only in the short distance from that island to
this archipelago, for it is only distant about sixty leguas from the
point of Samboanga; but also because in Macasar, as is reported, there
are Indians who adorn and tattoo the body as do the Visayans (who are
called Pintados on that account). But it is not known with certainty
where one and the other originated. We only know of a relation written
by the chief pilot, Pedro Fernandez de Quiros, of his voyage to the
Salomon Islands and their discovery by Albaro de Mendana de Neyra in
the year 1595. That relation is addressed to Doctor Antonio de Morga,
lieutenant-general for his Majesty of the Philipinas. The said Quiros
says in it that, finding themselves in ten long degrees south latitude,
they sighted an island to which General Don Albaro gave the name
of La Magdalena; and that from its port there came to receive them,
he says, "with seventy ships, more than four hundred white Indians,
of a very fine symmetry, tall, lusty, and robust, and so well built
that they far surpassed us. They had fine teeth, eyes, mouth, the most
beautiful hands and feet, and long hair. Many of them were very fair;
and among them were the must handsome youths, all naked, and without
covering over any part; and all their bodies, legs, arms, hands, and
in some the faces, were adorned as among these Visayans." From this
it is evident that they are Pintados Indians; and that they were not
conquered, like those whom we call here Pintados Visayans. They live
in south latitude, in the same parallel as that of the north, from
ten to twelve degrees. But it is not easy to determine what might
be the origin of the others; since, although it is known that this
custom of tattooing and making figures on the