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The present population of Jolo is less than 2,000. This includes all the natives and foreigners living in Tulay and Busbus; but the United States troops are excepted. The bulk of the inhabitants is made up of Filipinos, Chinese, and Moros. The census report of 1903 gives the following statistics, which include Tulay and San Remondo, but not Busbus:

Color	Males	Females
Brown	309	306
	Ilokano	10	4
	Moro	9	98
	Tagalog	103	66
	Bisayan	161	132
	Foreign born	26	6
Mixed	74	48
Yellow	429	56
White	31	17
Total	843	427

Walled town	541
Tulay	615
San Remondo	114
Total	1,270

Males of voting age

Brown:
	Filipino	189
		Ilokano	9
		Moro	4
		Tagalog	75
		Bisayan	101
	English	14
	French	1
	All others	5
Mixed:
	Filipino	1
	Chinese	8
	English	2
Yellow:
	Chinese	392
	Japanese	1
	English	3
White:
	American	22
	Spanish	2
	All others	1
		Total	641

As the great majority of the “mixed” population have Chinese fathers, they, as a rule, follow Chinese custom and trade and may be regarded as Chinese. The Chinese element may therefore be classified as follows:

Chinese	Males	Females	Total
Pure	429	56	485
Mixed	70	45	115
Total	499	101	600

The Filipinos may be classified as follows:

Filipinos	Males	Females	Total
Brown	274	202	476
Mixed	4	3	7
Total	278	205	483

The census statistics give a full and clear idea of the composition of the resident population of the town in 1903. The Chinese and their offspring, amounting to 600, undoubtedly form the preponderant element. The Filipinos come next, amounting to 483 only. Considerable change has, however, occurred since the census was taken, and necessitates a revision of the above figures. The increase of the garrison and the construction of many new buildings for the military post has caused an influx of Filipinos from Zamboanga and Kotabato, and more Chinese have undoubtedly come in since 1903. The census figures again do not include Moros, some hundreds of whom live at present in Tulay and Busbus.

The following, based on close personal observation, is considered a fair estimate of the present population:

	Walled town	San Remondo	Tulay	Busbus	Jolo
Moros	1630	30	300	350	710
Chinese	250	10	400	20	680
Filipinos	170	100	250		520
Total	450	140	950	370	1,910

The inhabitants of the town are more or less migratory in character. The population is constantly changing. Few are property owners. The majority are traders, carpenters, and domestic servants. The Filipinos were originally “camp followers” and still feel as strangers in the land. Many of the Moros living at Tulay and Busbus are of mixed origin. The mixture is chiefly of Sulus and Samals, with each other and with Chinese. The Jolo type of Moros is by no means pure Sulu and has consequently misled many authors and ethnologists. A large number of Samals frequent Tulay and Busbus and often temporarily reside there, but because of their strong migratory habits no estimate has been made of them.

A few Arabians, Malays, and Indian traders are married in the country, but their proportion is small and insignificant at present.

1 The spelling of proper names used throughout this paper is that adopted by the author and differs in some respects from that in use in the Division of Ethnology.—Editor.

2 This settlement is on a small adjacent island of the same name.

3 An officer next below a datu in rank.

4 An officer next below a panglima in rank.

5 The word Tumangtangis means “Shedder of tears.” As the summit of this mountain is the last object to be seen by sailors leaving the island, they weep from homesickness when they lose sight of it.

6 Quoted in Keppel’s “Visit to the Indian Archipelago,” p. 70.

7 Some maps place this mountain near Tu’tu’, but reliable Moros apply the name to the mountain west of Si’it and nearer to Su’ than to Tu’tu’.

8 Princess Ipil and her followers were wrecked and drowned at this point. Their bodies are said to have turned into stone and formed the rocks that line the shore. Some of the rocks seemed to the people to resemble petrified human beings.

9 Names of fruits with no English equivalents.

10 A Philippine tree from the blossoms of which a perfume is made.

11 Spanish word for street.

12 Beach at the head of the bay.

13 A sultanate in northern Borneo.

14 The Mindanao Herald, July 21, 1906.

15 Gum copal.

16 Most of these are females.