History of Philippine Islands: The Peopling of the Philippines/Pr Rud Virchow

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Description The Philippine Islands were discovered by Magellan in March 1521. This book presents the Peopling, the Agriculture and Industrialization of the Philippines. "Since the days when the first European navigators entered the South Sea, the dispute over the source and ethnic affiliations of the inhabitants of that extended and scattered island world has been unsettled. The most superficial glance points out a contrariety in external appearances, which leaves little doubt that here peoples of entirely different blood live near and among one another. And this is so apparent that the pathfinder in this region, Magellan, gave expression to the contrariety in his names for tribes and islands..."