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ALFUROS (ALFURES, HORAFORAS)

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Originally appearing in Volume V01, Page 585 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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ALFUROS (ALFURES, HORAFORAS) , a See also:term of no ethnological value applied by the See also:Malays to all the uncivilized non-See also:Mahommedan peoples in the eastern portion of the See also:Malay See also:Archipelago. Its origin is uncertain, but its meaning is " See also:wild " or " uncivilized." The term is not restricted to the See also:aborigines, but is far more frequently used to describe the tribes of Malayan See also:blood.

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