They speak the Bugis and Macassar languages, with dialects, and have two different native characters in which they write these.

They are all Mahometans.

The fourth great race is that of the Tagalas in the Philippine Islands, about whom, as I did not visit those Islands, I shall say little.

Many of them are now Christians, and speak Spanish as well as their native tongue, the Tagala.

The Moluccan-Malays, who inhabit chiefly Ternate, Tidore, Batchian, and Amboyna, may be held to form a fifth division of semi-civilized Malays.