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An. 1686

C H A P. XII.

Of the Inhabitants, and Civil State of the Isle of Mindanao. The Mindanayans, Hilanoones, Sologues, and Alfoorees. Of the Minda- nayans, properly so called : Their Manners and Habits. The Habits and Manners of their Women. A Comical Custom at Minda- nao. Their Houses, their Diet, and Wash- ings. The Languages spoken there, and trans- actions with the Spaniards. Their fear of the Dutch, and seeming desire of the English. Their Handy-crafts, and peculiar sort of Smiths Bellows. Their Shipping, Commodi- ties, and Trade. The Mindanao and Ma- nila Tobacco. A sort of leprosie there, and other Distempers. Their Marriages The Sultan of Mindanao, his Poverty, Power, Family, &c. The Proes or Boats here. Ra- ja Laut the General, Brother to the Sultan, and his Family. Their way of fighting. Their Religion. Raja Laut's Devotion. A Clock or Drum in their Mosques. Of their Cir- cumcision, and the Solemnity then used. Of other their Religious Observations and Super- stitions. Their abhorrence of Swines Flesh, &c.

THis Island is not subject to one Prince, nei- ther is the Language one and the same ; but the People are much alike, in colour, strength, and stature. They are all or most of them of one