The Philippine Islands, 1493-1898 — Volume 14 of 55: 1606-1609; Explorations by Early Navigators, Descriptions of the Islands and Their Peoples, Their History and Records of The Catholic Missions, As Related in Contemporaneous Books and Manuscripts, Showing the Political, Economic, Commercial and Religious Conditions of Those Islands from Their Earliest Relations with European Nations to the Close of the Nineteenth Century
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The Philippine Islands, 1493-1898 — Volume 14 of 55: 1606-1609; Explorations by Early Navigators, Descriptions of the Islands and Their Peoples, Their History and Records of The Catholic Missions, As Related in Contemporaneous Books and Manuscripts, Showing the Political, Economic, Commercial and Religious Conditions of Those Islands from Their Earliest Relations with European Nations to the Close of the Nineteenth Century
Demarcation line of Alexander VI; Missions -- Philippines; Philippines -- Discovery and exploration; Philippines -- History -- Sources
_Gomez Perez Dasmarinas_. At the beginning of August of the same
year, Gomez Perez Dasmarinas sent Don Francisco de Mendoca with
a troop of soldiers after Don Luis Dasmarinas, his son. Having
reached Tuy on the nineteenth of the said month, the chiefs gave
him a cordial reception, and he traded with them, especially with
one of the principal women. Thence, accompanied by this woman, and
other Indians of her village, who aided him in carrying the burdens
of his stores, he went to Bantal. There he found a cross erected,
and the inhabitants of the village drawn up near it with lance and
shield, as if about to offer him battle. He asked nothing from them,
and they gave nothing. He did not stop there. A chief went with Don
Francisco of his own accord to Buguey, where he found its inhabitants
stationed in the passes with the same preparation of arms. The people
making an effort to fool him with some bundles of grass, he begged
them for rice in return for money, but they refused him. He seized by
force two chiefs, and took them with him. These men, having seen the
injury done him by the inhabitants of Tuy, took it upon themselves
to guide the expedition to the hamlets where Don Luis had been before
going to Dangla. Don Francisco tried to get rice in Dangla, offering
to pay for it; but as they refused to sell it to him, he seized a
chief. He entertained this chief and his wife and had them sleep near
him. When morning came, the chief offered that if Don Francisco would
allow him to go to the village, he would bring him rice; but as soon
as he was at liberty he took flight, and had the village put under
arms. The inhabitants went out to meet Don Francisco armed with spear
and shield, so that he was obliged to fortify himself during one night,
as they insolently molested the Spaniards.
_Balabat; Pao; Palali; Lamot; Nacalan_. Don Francisco went to the
villages of Balabat and Pao. The two chiefs in his custody escaped
from him there. Thence he went to the village of Palilamot, which
he found under arms. From this latter place he went to the village
of Nacalan, which he found deserted. In that place he embarked in
certain small boats on Thursday, the twenty-ninth, and voyaged along
the river until the thirty-first of August. On that date he reached
three small villages, which he found deserted and their approaches
strewn with straw.
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