Note 1 — Wild Tribes and Pagans
Reading edition
In old writings, laws, and documents, and in ordinary parlance up to the evacuation by the Spaniards in 1898, the inhabitants of these Islands (civilized or uncivilized) were almost invariably referred to as Indios, Indigenas, Naturales, Mestizos, Españoles-Filipinos, etc., the term “Filipino” being seldom used. The Revolution of 1896 generalized the appellation “Filipino” now in common use.
Throughout this work, “Filipino” is taken as the substantive and “Philippine” as the adjective, that being the correct English form.
The Americans, however, use “Filipino” both substantively and adjectivally.