Note 38 — PART I
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Such are the three great classes of men which may be considered as natives of the Phillippine Islands. The Creole38 Spaniards, or those whose blood is but little mingled with the Indian ancestry, pass as Spaniards. Many of them are respectable merchants and men of large property; while others, from causes which will be seen hereafter, are sunk in all the vices of the Indian and Mestizo.