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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

History

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

Six whole days were spent in distributing, or burning and destroying,
everything in Mindanao; and thus on the twenty-fifth of March, the
day of the blessed Annunciation, we started on the return trip to
Samboanga. But the governor would not set sail before returning thanks
at that very place to His Divine Majesty for so great a victory. He
therefore arranged a solemn procession with the blessed sacrament,
from the mosque to the fort--himself at the head, carrying the image of
the holy Christ and of St. Francis Xavier, patron of the expedition,
and wearing the white robe of his order, in which he had received
communion. The soldiers with their muskets, and the artillery at
the fort, gave eight royal salutes with ball--which aside from doing
honor to the procession, served to clear the two little hills of the
ambuscade, which, without our knowledge, the Moros had laid to prevent
our embarkation. We found this out by means of the large number of
dead bodies which Captain Juan Nicolas discovered a little while
after, when, returning from the Bugayen River, he wished to see the
place where we had attacked Corralat. When the procession was over,
we set fire to the mosque and the fort; and the troops commenced
to embark in good order, in the small champans of the fleet. Then
Sargento-mayor Palomino was sent with five caracoas and a hundred
Spaniards, with Father Melchor de Vera, who knew the language very
well, to search for Moncay, king of Bagaien [_i.e._, Buhayen] [94]
and the real lord of the island of Mindanao; this Corralat, though his
relative, was but the tyrant. Bagaien is twelve leguas from the fort of
Mindanao. [Palomino went] to make a treaty of peace with him whereby
he should become a tributary and vassal to his Majesty. While we were
setting sail, one of our Indian captives appeared on the shore. The
falua brought him off to our champan, and he told us how he had fled
from the enemy's grain-fields where they had kept him during those
days; and that, passing through one of the ravines of the hill,
he had found a vast number of dead Moros. [95]

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History

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

Six whole days were spent in distributing, or burning and destroying,
everything in Mindanao; and thus on the twenty-fifth of March, the
day of the blessed Annunciation, we started on the return trip to
Samboanga. But the governor would not set sail before returning thanks
at that very place to His Divine Majesty for so great a victory. He
therefore arranged a solemn procession with the blessed sacrament,
from the mosque to the fort--himself at the head, carrying the image of
the holy Christ and of St. Francis Xavier, patron of the expedition,
and wearing the white robe of his order, in which he had received
communion. The soldiers with their muskets, and the artillery at
the fort, gave eight royal salutes with ball--which aside from doing
honor to the procession, served to clear the two little hills of the
ambuscade, which, without our knowledge, the Moros had laid to prevent
our embarkation. We found this out by means of the large number of
dead bodies which Captain Juan Nicolas discovered a little while
after, when, returning from the Bugayen River, he wished to see the
place where we had attacked Corralat. When the procession was over,
we set fire to the mosque and the fort; and the troops commenced
to embark in good order, in the small champans of the fleet. Then
Sargento-mayor Palomino was sent with five caracoas and a hundred
Spaniards, with Father Melchor de Vera, who knew the language very
well, to search for Moncay, king of Bagaien [_i.e._, Buhayen] [94]
and the real lord of the island of Mindanao; this Corralat, though his
relative, was but the tyrant. Bagaien is twelve leguas from the fort of
Mindanao. [Palomino went] to make a treaty of peace with him whereby
he should become a tributary and vassal to his Majesty. While we were
setting sail, one of our Indian captives appeared on the shore. The
falua brought him off to our champan, and he told us how he had fled
from the enemy's grain-fields where they had kept him during those
days; and that, passing through one of the ravines of the hill,
he had found a vast number of dead Moros. [95]

Public-domain text, read in full here on John Shaqi.

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