The West Wind Produces The Wet Season, Which Is
Heaviest In July And August, And, Gradually Lessening In September,
Ceases In October, When The East Wind Brings Fair Weather, Which Lasts
Till May.
The inhabitants of this island, though all resembling each
other in colour and stature, and all Mahometans, differ considerably in
language and government.
The mountaineers, or Hillanoons, who inhabit
the interior, and are masters of the gold-mines, are also rich in
bees-wax, both of which they exchange with the Mindanayans on the
coast for foreign commodities. The Sologus inhabit the N.W. end of the
island, and traffic with the inhabitants of Manilla and some other
adjacent islands, but not with the Mindanayans. The Alfoores were
formerly under the same government with the Mindanayans, but were
separated from them by falling to the share of the younger children of
the sultan of Mindanao, who has of late laid claim to their allegiance.
The Mindanayans, properly so called, are of low stature, with small
limbs, little heads, straight bodies, small eyes short noses, wide
mouths, thin red lips, and sound black teeth, having black lank hair,
and tawny complexions, but rather brighter than other Indians. They are
ingenious and nimble, much addicted to indolence, obliging to strangers,
but implacable when once disobliged. They wear turbans on their heads,
formed of a cloth tied once round, the ends of which hang down, and are
ornamented with lace or fringe. They also wear breeches, over which
they have a kind of frocks, but have neither shoes nor stockings.
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