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of the various tribes inhabiting the island of Luzon, it would be difficult to see any difference. The native horses, the dogs, the carabao, the cattle, the chickens, and the vehicles are practically the same, as is much of the flora and fauna seen along the roads. There is this marked difference, however, the people are Mohammedans, having been forcibly converted to that faith by the Arabs in the sixteenth century. The manner of living, although modified by more than three hundred years' occupation by the Dutch, is similar to that in the Philippines. I was not impressed with the roads, schools, public works, or communications beyond the fact that they existed and were well developed; the schools from a primary standpoint only. What does strike one especially, however, is the density of population and the development of the agriculture. 
There are about thirty-six million people on the island of Java. It is one of the most thickly populated parts of the world, having about seven hundred persons per square mile. The reason for this great population cannot be attributed to the fertility of the island alone because the islands around it are equally fertile. The reason probably lies in the fact that is was organized politically by the Hindus who were great cultivators, irrigation engin-

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