The Philippine Islands, 1493-1898 — Volume 27 of 55: 1636-37; 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 27 of 55: 1636-37; 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
with his troops, without difficulty or danger, on the rear as far
as the stockades and forts, till he remained master of two of these
with four pieces of artillery and the king's strong-house where he
kept his treasure. Many Moros were killed, not only by our shots,
but by rushing down in a furious and headlong flight through a very
narrow ravine which was at the entrance of this very stockade where
they expected us--falling, by a just judgment of God, into the very
snares which they had laid for us. At the same time Captain Castelo
met some Moros who were coming to join the others--the garrison of
the third stockade, which we had attacked the day before with our
vanguard; and, with the same ease, he compelled them to flee and fling
themselves down, he remaining master of the fort and its arms, which
were muskets with rests, arquebuses, campilans, etc. The relatives
and the men and maid-servants of Corralat, with many of his people,
who were taken prisoners on that day, said that the night before he
had put under his feet a monstrance containing the blessed sacrament,
which he had stolen, saying to all that there was nothing to fear,
for he had the God of the Christians already under his feet; and that,
considering the great strength of his fortified hills and stockades,
and the large quantity of provisions that they had, they would be quite
safe, unless it rained men from heaven. But when, the next morning,
they brought him word that our men were attacking from the rear,
he said to his wife: "The Spaniards have chosen a bad place for me"
(reflecting that, as I have said, he had no defense for guarding the
rear of the hill); "however, be of good courage, and wait here for me,
for I am going to do to these what I did yesterday to the others." He
went, and his wife, seeing that we were coming in, urged her women
to fling themselves down with her, so as not to be captured. They,
being more sensible, refused to do this, [92] and so they became our
slaves; while the poor queen, with a child which she was holding in
her arms, flung herself down and remained hanging from a tree. This
was a cause of regret to us all, on account of the kind disposition
which she possessed, according to the report given us by the father
rector of Dapitan, who knew her to be very friendly to our Christian
captives--sending them food secretly (especially to the religious),
and reproaching her husband when he maltreated and abused them. After
the queen had flung herself down, Corralat, with a bullet-wound in one
arm, came in search of her; and, seeing her already dead, he fled by
one of those declivities, without being recognized, to some hamlets
four leguas from the hill, where they say he is now recovering.
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