Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, April 20, 1902, Page 32

Negritos, the Dwarf Race of the Philippines RITO SLAVE NUR ? GIRL AND HERR MASTER AND MISTRESS (Copyright, 1902, by Frank G. Carpent:r.) now and then the scouts meet the Negritos. (he same whitenes of the eyeball, and, l ASHINGTON April - 17.—(Special The little brown men look at them from Wwould, I venture, have the same whiteness | Correspondence of The Bee.) @ distance, but generally scamper as they of the teeth were it not that they chew Have you ever heard of Uncle appreoach The result is that it is almost betel This turns the teeth black m Sam’s pygmics? Fhey are to be Impossible to get pictures of them in their Our Negrito cousins will never be cus- found in the wilds of the Philip savage state, and I find it difficult to make tomers for American goods. The average pine islands, and they are wilder and more snap shots of such as are serving as slaves department store carries enough cotton in | : wvage than the regions in which they live Nution of Slaves. stock to outfit the whole nation. The pyg- ‘ I saw something of them during my tay Ak B mies of the mountains go almost naked . \ ‘Yes, as slaves The Negritos are a , ¢ . 5 in Luzen and 1 give you here an unpub HAtI8E 3%l T N Their women wear strings of beads or ition of slaves 'y are 8t lished chapter from my note book written M s ave gy are in rvitu a shells about the neck and a waist strip of not only in Mindanuo, but in every one of m pc cotton which extends to the knees. The our islands They are owned by both Christians and Mor I irand 1 men have only a string and a breech cloth. ristians an« Moros 1ave already « . I can’t say that I like the looks of these in the heart of their country “I am in the land of the Negritos, in the Zambales mountains, in the wilds of west- 2 - scribed how four children were offered to people. They have very thin legs and very me fcr $50 In the lower pert of (he Philin : g y iy Y pine (slands; The womat who. tried to ail full slnll‘Im hs, possessing what is known in them was & Cheistian She Wad: tot- & Porto Rico as the “banana belly,” an en- = i v 3 largement of the abdomen which comes from their diet. Their food is roots and wild fruits, especially wild bananas, and also such game as they find in the mountains. They have no settled farms, although we pass now and then a little patch of rice or Indian corn. Such patches are not bigger than bed quilts and they are found in natural clearings. The Ne- gritos merely scratch the surface of the ground and sow the seed, taking up new places year after year. ern Luzon. Tre as big around as a hogs head and 200 feet high tower over me. A dense jungle of tropical vegetation sur rounds me and the clear waters of a moun tain tcrrent make musie as they tumble Mohammedan kair in her head and 1 hay ince learned that the holding of slav on that island 1is common among th [ | Christians “It is the same throughout the arch) pelago. There are planters not far from Manila who have Negritos working for them. I have seen them among the house ervants of the farmers of the great central valley, and in a trip which I made through the provinces of Papanga 1 stopped at a ugar planter's house and was there waited vEGRITO AND ALBERICAN boLbin? " ke Bhitiboi physically. They are neathen and so far feet and slid. The foothiiis of (he moun upon by these little Negritos, who were in RRters of the sIEPpineSs, missionaries have made no impression upon tains are covered with a wiry grass from slavery. 1 asked the planter what they The Negritos are good hunters and trap- them. ten to twelve feet high. My horse is over were worth He told me they had cost pers. They catch many deer and wild hogs Religion and Marriage, sixteen hands and my head is entirely hid- him about $20 aplece, and when I proposed | gaw several deer traps on our way j i A0 a8 1 106 throumh thése restons - T cao that I take a snapshot of one of them he through the mountains One which we T'he average Negrito has but ome wife, not see the officers in front of or behind m and I have to hold my arn before my face to keep the grass from cutting me. Much of the trail has been chopped out of thi Jungie along the bed of the streams., It was made by the rebels with the idea that 1t would form an avenue of escape for thelr trcops and that the Americans would not dare to follow. Still, Lieutenants Burr and Humphrey came over that trail with a bana consented. The boy I selected was named Manuel He was 19 years old, but no taller than our boys of 10. He was hardly three feet In height, was as dark as stove blacking and his little round head was covered with black curls. His master pro passed this morning was merely a long although he may have female slaves, hav- bamboo pole fastened to the trees across D& adopted as such the widows of his de- a path, down which the deer came to a ¢cased friends or female relatives. Mar drinking place at a stream. The pole haa Tiage takes place at an early age and girls loops of rattan o hung from it that when A&re usually wedded by the time they are a deer ran under It the horns would catch 13. In the marriage ceremony the groom posed that he pose for the camera, but as j, (he loops. The loops had a sllp noose Ccatches the bride and drags her to her soon as the Instrument was pointed at him 414 ag the deer pulled away they tightenea Parcnts, telling them he wants to marry Manuel fled with a terrified howl and h: apq helqd him until the Negritos who were her. If the old folks consent, a cocoanut was not in sight during the rest of my watching could spear or shoot him while Shell of water is poured over the couple, of the brigade scouts after dark. Thes stay so entangled. In places there are long 'hey woolly heads are pressed together and made their way right into the mountains to I succeeded, however, In getting a photo- rows of these traps. They must be of from that time on they are man and wife. seven miles beyond where I now am. At graph of a Negrito slave nurse girl and value, although it would seem that the ‘Whether the bride gets a new wedding Dimundan they had a fight with the insur- her little Filipino master and mistress. deer could easily pull loose. waistcloth I do not know, but I am told rectos, killed a number of them and cap The little slave secemed to be on an almost | am told that the Negritos are excellent 'Nat the two always go off by themselves tured their 1 guns P*) p ™ v on ip 1 oug o w cven footing with the planter's children, grchers. General Fred Grant has a large a (rip through the woods during the A description of this trail will give you g s is 2 t 3 honeymoon. This lasts for five days. Then e Yo ind T am told that this is the case in most (gjjection of their bows and arrows, gath- thes eah back ana: Lol \ ot S0me idea of these mountains of Luzdh T rous ey e back and e > E " fnilies. The elavery is seldom oncrous or ereq from different parts of these moun- ? i BN Ok 4o hash cut with balos right out of the ' . the tribe. € rucl tains. The bows are of a black, hard wooa Many of the Negritos so sold are anq the strings are of twisted rattan; the ,], f”” Lm'\ traveling 'lhrough the Zam- tropical vegetation I rode for miles orphans. There are no asylums for such ,rrow shafts are of bamboo and the arrow- PAalés mountains ‘\\.m General Fred Grant little ones in the woods and the head men heads are of iron with needle-like points *' d his staff We have a guard of flr‘ty of i of the tribe turn them into money by sell- 454 so barbed just above where they join the brigade scouts under Lieutenant Frank , _ S ieneral Gran g kKing & ing Other slaves are taken in battle by the wood that it is impossible to pull them Burr. General Grant is making a tour the stronger of the savage tribes and some out. Some have detachable heads fastencd f h}»’p;w tlnr; of his lx‘nxlmr?' lv-».\‘fts, which ’ children are sold, I am told, by their py strings to the shafts. When an unimal 8T I"‘“”""‘r '["‘r a “r“‘"' I"‘”'“ 'Vhe cen- parents. It is only the littie ones that are jg wounded the arrow-head stayvs in the ral valley of Luzon and through the mu\m-‘ so disposed of." flesh, held there by the harpoon-like barbs, '8ins as far south as Manila lu. The | ! and the shaft flies off and dr vdong the four will last a week and it will include ar e 8hé 4 ) andc dar alon tnele Sam's Pygmies ground, catching on every obstruction and \x\x f lh“ I\\\ thn~ ‘\mhvr\ ll{ Ikun‘\:‘ % { e are traveling on seback anc But who are these Negritos? impeding the flight of the animal s S1g oh Jorsehe this moment are at Calang, in the very . Ihey look much like the pictures of thoe I am disappointed in not seeing more (Continuer on Eighth Page.) hear f the mountain Here our soldiers Iwarfs which you find in books of African Negrito houses. I learned that most of tt o lv;' i ‘r A m-{vlm ! s e a ca ‘ s as p > as tt X e, S 2 . travel ud they are. to far s I Know, the pygmies live la caves. aithough they wow [WVL 0 WP TUCL S o6 prlstiie wethe| ROEE REMEDY.) abita obinso soe e tents ~ PR Y &) only race of dwarfs outside the Dark Con- ang then build up little shelters or eheds are little structures of hay and bamboo just E nent. Many of then \\h.n full grown, are made of grasse and bamboo ||vl.r‘ The large enough for the soldiers to crawl into o .I-"J' i Ali and gentlemen who cannot 0 AL IBAICEROR 688 MALK NaAeh Ahe Ul hods seem (o Do for famporery use. A ther They are hidden by the high grass 1! ““’I ;) I‘lirn'“;)r IMWIHH'I ;1“ ‘]\“ 2y me I"hk t X rican Negr:! 8 rec 1 uple ourg oNn "oy are v e 2ig RO all and canno nd any medica NEGRITO WARRIOR retched arm of the Average American Negrito can erect one in a e uple of hours L tr of insurrectos might stumble featment which will correct this condition soldler without touching it. I have seen and so he leaves it at will. They wander Dr. Whitney's Nerve and Flech Boiacion. upon them without knowing it. There are . ilone Intended for those who are 0 € i « s fo J about C lace lace, sleeping where 1 ! over the rocks through a gorge at my but tew who are as much as four feet In about from place to place CEP'DE WROTE . bout fifty soldiers in the camp, but the but also for those who right. The air is filled with strange sounds «e¢ight and all are puny, lean and weak pight overtakes them and not caring for sick appear well and . mountains are full of brigands and the men N°arty, but cannot acquire sufficient flesh and strange odors, Orchids by he milllons looking. General Fred Grant has made permanent habitaticn Fhey have little oo %oyinced to g0 nowhere without thu.r\"f'g,li‘-‘:.!.:.’ :\‘;.‘(~(’:’u‘x’l’m“")’\”}‘rnullllll g E"\rllhi!\' h"yllnl hang from the trees, and monl.eys gibber considerable of a study of them and some clothing or belongings .w“i .}j womer .‘ H‘I guns. There is a swimming pool mearby, | nervous diseases remedy is 50 Biomot at me from the branches ¢f the material in this letter is from con- easlly carry the household u -.|~ W ‘I..\ but the swimmers do not get far away |*"d [m\wrml In order to demonstrate the “I am with General Fred Grant on an versations with him : onsist of but a fe “, cups and shells 'lln. trom the bank where their guns lle, and \I\l-‘;'lml-_f'!g’l‘ ';.'.'llx.[f.."ml-'.'\ \|:>,r".~(‘:::'\\\\1|‘>.:}'l inspection tour in the land of the Negritos, Where do they come from ! side snm’n' ':lvf the huts “H. . see the re- while they are in bathing other soldiers address the C. O. Jones Co. Elmira, N ’ but the forests are so dense that we see The Negritos were here when the Span- mains of e king. The stove consists watch with loaded rifles, ::: “..A,nl. ‘1 trial 1‘”-"\““. in plain sealed but little of them 1 the little brown ifards arrived They have given them the of three stones placed in ‘h‘; shape of a I g . g - l‘u‘x[’i." A‘T‘«'t‘tx”\‘ rlt: et A . t ) f They hide be name of Negritos, or little negroes, and triangle, so that a pot can rest upon them paigning in the ntains Connell Drig’ o 3 e ”; ‘. . ]““l.yltllwl«.“p“ ut at the troops that is just what they are They are over the coal The people eat with their I had no idea what campaigning in Luzon ‘!:1“‘1‘: I;,‘.f;u \'1 i.-\ .‘1|«.|.l the Filipinos as negroes In miniature, negroes ~o small that fingers and dring from the streams meant until I came into the mountains. I well as the Americans, and it is only now one of the big black fellows of w B A g s = ‘ ! ; N : » ABY € sited a untry so rugged, so f SSELL, i n 1 @ 18 learn teglments could alm w one and parts of the i{sland are afraid of white peo bkl . and « ar " M N Not far from our not feel uncomfortable Negroes with ple and that they will run at their approach. over hills so ete ep that the horses almos' much about them. » 8 AER = ith this reason little is known of thelr fell bacl | RESIDENCE mp is a hut in which two Negritos black skins and big features! Negroes with r this reason ¢ fell backward as they tried to mount them |m |l and on our way up the mountains we wide nostrils, thick lips and flat noses' customs. Those used as slaves are cap- and so steep that we had to get off and cie; deac ‘and then pass their little shacks and Negroes with black, woolly halr, not so tured so young that they can tell but littl> walk while going down. In some places It ECCLESIASTICAL ( e vl pe L.::\“ We have a party of scouts golng tight to the head as that of the African. about their own pw‘\ple, The race is ap- seemed like climbing dowa the side of a Phone 503, Omaha . in tr@l of us to prevent ambush, and but of the same wiry texture. They have parently as weak intellectually as it is wall, and the horses raightened out their ) swal nd \ Gas and Electric Fivteres