Word: malays
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...plantation home of Manuel Quezon, president of the Filipino Senate. Like Caesar in triumph, Mr. Thompson's august entourage proceeded down a flower-strewn path between 3,500,000 coconut trees over 100 feet high-slowly on, on to Lucena, capital of the province, where eager little Malay schoolgirls dressed all in snowy white, held up an immense placard: "Welcome, Mr. Thompson; we are confident of your sense of justice...
...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...
Jungle Joe now joins their company, a youthful elephant captured with 55 of his elders and betters in a drive on the Malay Peninsula. He is brought over the oceans to Madison Square Garden; shipped across the continent with a big circus to winter quarters in Hollywood, and then back again to grace the zoo of a small New England city...
...trainer and "brother," a Malay lad named Ali, is with him through thick and thin, from the night the bellowing tuskers mill and trample in their first stockade after crushing the life out of Ali's father. Together the two weather a Pacific typhoon; a plunge from a railroad trestle in their boxcar; a 100-mile race against an Arab horse; a pulling-match with four draft horses; a cinema tiger-hunt that turns serious...
...more than 3300 square feet of exhibition space, and in them are now being installed the ethnological collections form Tibet, Burma, and northern India, secured by professor Dixon; the collections recently acquired from the native peoples of Siberia, including the Chukchi, Yakut, Samoyed, and Goldi; and those from the Malay Archipelago, the Philippine Island, and certain other group of the western pacific...