Crossword-Solution: SAMAL 5 letters, 1 clue 🏆 scrabble score: 7

There are and long have been daring Malayan pirates, and there is to-day among the southern islands a numerous class -- the Samal -- living most of the time on the sea, yet they all keep close to land, except in time of calm, and when a storm is brewing they strike out straight for the nearest shore like scared children.

The Spaniard discovered the inward flow of the large Samal Moro group -- after his arrival in the sixteenth century.

The movement of this nomadic "Sea Gipsy" Samal has not ceased to-day, but continues to flow in and out among the small southern islands.

The Moro Samal Laut of the southern Sulu Archipelago avoid the large volcanic islands of the group, and place their big villages over the sea on low coral reefs.

The southern Philippines derived the considerable Mohammedan element of their populations from the Samal Laut, who came from Sumatra and the islands of the Strait of Malacca.[986] A Malayan strain can be traced through Polynesia to far-off Easter Isle.