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Negritos   Listen
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Negritos  n. pl.  (singular Negrito) (Ethnol.) A Papuan race, inhabiting Luzon and some of the other east Indian Islands. They resemble black people, but are smaller in size. They are mostly nomads.





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"Negritos" Quotes from Famous Books



... Among the Negritos of the Philippine Islands, when a child is born, one of the other children immediately gives it to eat some salt on the point of a knife (326. I. 258). The virtues of salt are recognized among many peoples. In the Middle Ages, when mothers abandoned their infants, ...
— The Child and Childhood in Folk-Thought • Alexander F. Chamberlain


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