Word: malayans
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...Racially, Filipinos and Moros are homogeneous, both springing from Malayan origins. But in the migrations from Malay there were many distinct tribes, of which the Visayan is now preponderant in the Philippines. The Moros were the last tribe to migrate, after their Mohammedan conversion. They are still classified among the Islands' "wild" tribes and their frequent uprisings against the Visayans are due as much to tribal as to religious animosity...
...Sultan's heart was heavy with pain but he centered all his affection on his remaining daughter Dayang-Dayang?for she is dutiful. Soon she is to marry a Malayan Prince and go to live in Singapore, some 1,200 miles across the island-broken seas...
Zizi, a desperate young thing, wandered through the Bois de Boulogne, where lovers are wont to prowl. But the lovers had fled far away leaving the Bois empty, save for gendarmes. Three days Zizi spent in the park while the man who had first wooed her from the Malayan jungle, wrung his hands in distress. Then one morning she left the park to visit a boys' school. The master spied her, called gendarmes. She fled into a lavatory, jumped out of a window, but the gendarmes pursued her with bullets and she died in a ditch. The leopard hunter...
Trachoma is an inflammatory disease of the eye. For centuries, it has been prevalent in different parts of Asia, especially in China and the Malayan Archipelago; in Egypt and other parts of Africa; in the Balkans, Austria, Hungary, Germany and other parts of Europe. Such is its character that the man who suffers from it burrows in darkness, and lives out his life (for the disease is generally incurable) in dread of the light. Any brightness sears the nerves of the brain like molten metal. Great efforts have been made to keep the disease...
...semi-annual addition to the Ware Collection of Glass Flowers has recently been received by the Botanical Museum from Mr. R. Blaschka, of Horowitz, Germany, their maker. Among the 19 species of plants that were received are the common water lily, the Malayan pitcher plant, and the Canadian maple, both in its natural state and when turned crimson by frost...