_Island of Cubu_. The island of Cubu, the first to be settled by Miguel Lopez de Legazpi, has a circuit of nearly a hundred leagues and a length of about fifty leagues, for it is very narrow. At the two extremities it is, at the widest place, about twenty leagues wide. One extremity, the one lying toward the north, is called Burula. The other extremity, which we call Las Cabecas and the natives Sanbuan, lies at the south; for, as is inferred, this island runs nearly north and south. One cannot sail very close to the island; because all along the coast where the town of Cubu is situated are to be found bays that curve in different directions. On the other and western side of the island the land lies almost northeast and southwest. The entire island contains about three thousand five hundred Indians, living in different, and for the most part small, villages. Here I shall mention only the principal ones, for the others are small, numbering only from eight to ten houses. _Jaro_. Jaro is under the charge of an encomendero who also holds an encomienda elsewhere; the village is inhabited by five hundred Indians. _Daraguete_. Daraguete is also an encomienda, with two hundred Indians. _Penol_. El Penol is also an encomienda, with two hundred Indians. _Jaro_. Jaro is likewise an encomienda, with two hundred Indians. _Temanduc_. Temanduque is also an encomienda, with five hundred Indians. _Temanduc_. In the same province of Temanduque another encomendero has seventy Indians; and it is also an encomienda. _Barile_. The village of Barile is another encomienda; it is inhabited by four hundred natives. It is also an encomienda. _Burugan_. The village of Burugan has about seventy Indians. It is also an encomienda. _Candaya_. The province of Candaya has three hundred and fifty Indians, belonging to two encomenderos. It is also an encomienda. No Spaniards are to be found in any of the principal encomiendas, in all this province, although fourteen of them possess holdings therein. These Spaniards, because they were inhabitants of the town of Cubu, received each two or three small villages, together with service from the Indians, fowls, and other means of maintenance; for the principal encomiendas were distant from them thirty or forty leagues, more or less. On the other side of the above-mentioned native communities, at about two arquebus-shots from the Spanish town of Ssantisimo Nombre de Jesus (thus called because an image of the child Jesus, of the time of Magallanes, had been found there, and was held in great reverence by the Indians), is a village of the natives belonging to the royal crown, with about eight hundred Indians. The commander Miguel Lopez de Legazpi exempted this community from paying tribute; for they had always taken sides with the Spaniards, and had helped them to conquer some of the other islands.