Moro
those inhabitants of the Philippine Islands living in the Sulu Archipelago and the island of Mindanao who are Mohammedans. Most of them live in rude boats near the coast and wander from place to place wherever the fishing is good. Others of them live like the "lake dwellers" on houses erected on piles over the streams and ponds. They are in a rude stage of barbarism and are a cruel and warlike race. Polygamy and slavery are practiced among them, and as far as they have any government it is patriarchal. The Sultan of Sulu is supposed to be the supreme ruler, but his actual authority is small over the more distant groups.