Word: visayan
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Dates: during 1926-1926
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...Colonel then desired to seek further information in the Visayan Islands; cabled to Washington for permission to use the U. S. destroyer Merritt lying idle in Manila Bay. The War Department answered, "Sorry, no funds...
...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...