ry blacke moores with frizled haire * * *: and
being demanded where they had these blacke moores, they answered,
that they had them from certaine islands standing fast by Sebut,
where there were many of them.

Zuniga [5] quotes the Franciscan history [6] as follows:

The Negritos which our first conquerors found were, according to
tradition, the first possessors of the islands of this Archipelago,
and, having been conquered by the political nations of other
kingdoms, they fled to the mountains and populated them, whence
no one has been able to accomplish their extermination on account
of the inaccessibility of the places where they live. In the past
they were so proud of their primitive dominion that, although
they did not have strength to resist the strangers in the open,
in the woods and mountains and mouths of the rivers they were very
powerful. They made sudden attacks on the pueblos and compelled
their neighbors to pay tribute to them as to lords of the earth
which they inhabited, and if these did not wish to pay them they
killed right and left, collecting the tribute in heads. * * *

One of the islands of note in this Archipelago is that called Isla
de Negros on account of the abundance of them [negroes]. In one
point of this island--on the west side, called "Sojoton"--there
is a great number of Negritos, and in the center of the island
many more.

Chirino has the following to say of the Negritos of Panay at the end
of the sixteenth century: [7]

Amongst these (Bisayas) there are also some negroes, the ancient
inhabitants of the island of which they had taken possession before
the Bisayas. They are somewhat less black and less ugly man those
of Guinea, but are smaller and weaker, although as regards hair
and beard they are similar. They are more barbarous and savage
than the Bisayas and other Filipinos, for they do not, like them,
have houses and fixed settlements. They neither sow nor reap, and
they wander through the mountains with their women and children
like animals, almost naked. * * * Their sole possessions are the
bow and arrow.

Meyer, [8] who has given the subject much study and has conducted
personal investigations on the field, states that "although at the
time of the arrival of the Spaniards in the country, and probably
long before, the Negritos were in process of being dr