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A detailed account is given of the various classes of priests, sorcerers, witches, etc., in which the natives believed; also of the burial rites of both Tagalogs and Negritos.

From The Philippine Islands, 1493-1898 — Volume 07 of 55 1588-1591 Explorations by Early Navigators, Descriptions of the Islands and Their Peoples, Their History and Records of the Catholic Missions, as Related in Contemporaneous Books and Manuscripts, Showing the Political, Economic, Commercial and Religious Conditions of Those Islands from Their Earliest Relations with European Nations to the Close of the Nineteenth Century by Robertson, James Alexander

Two-fifths of their population of 7,600,000 belong to the leading tribe, the Visayans, and one-fifth to another, the Tagalogs.

From Races and Immigrants in America by Commons, John R. (John Rogers)

Spain first occupied the place in 1855 and garrisoned it with several hundred Hokanos and Tagalogs.

From The Head Hunters of Northern Luzon by Willcox, Cornélis de Witt

The schoolhouses had been used as barracks by the Tagalogs.

From A Woman's Impression of the Philippines by Fee, Mary Helen

There are Tagalogs, Visayans, Bicols, Pampangans, Ilokanos, Cagayanes, etc., etc., to say nothing of the wild people themselves, all speaking different languages; but these can not be said to form one people.

From The Head Hunters of Northern Luzon by Willcox, Cornélis de Witt