Note 25 — Chapter XL
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The island of Mindanao was also more populous during the period of the Spanish conquest than now. The islands of Sarangani which have now 1,500 Bilanes and 100 Moros, were very thickly populated by the latter in 1548, and they had a large fort on a hill there.—B.
But see VOL. IX, p. 290, where it appears that the early reports of the population of Mindanao were greatly overstated. ↑