[83] Retana says, in the preface to his edition of Combés (col. lvi) that the ancient divisions of the island of Mindanao were four: Butúan, Zamboanga, Mindanao (or district of the Moros), and Caraga. Colin states (_Labor evangélica_, p. 42) that "the district of the Moros begins at the river of Sibuguey, and extends along the discovered coast, always to the south, for more than sixty leguas, until it encounters the beginning of the jurisdiction of Caraga.... Its furthest part is the bay of Tagalooc" (_i.e._, Davao, according to Pastells, in his edition of Colin, i, p. 43). The river above mentioned "discharges its waters into the bay of Dumanquilas" (Retana and Pastells, _Combés_, col. 761). [84] The Ventura del Arco transcript is here somewhat differently worded; and according to it the sentence would continue thus: "(and by another caracoa, which carried a white flag, a letter to the Recollect fathers whom the Moros held captive there, that they should inform them [_i.e._, our men?] of what was going on) should cast anchor," etc. [85] This place was Lamitan, Corralat's seat of government and court. The height to which that chief retreated after the capture of Lamitan was named Ilihan, according to Montero y Vidal (_Hist. piratería_, i, p. 168). [86] Probably referring to Liguasan, a large lake southeast of Cotabato, which forms a reservoir for the waters of the Rio Grande of Mindanao--which river seems to have been the headquarters of the piratical Moros of that island. The fort captured at this time was located at the mouth of that river. [87] _Sarvatanas_ (or _zarbatanas_): a word of Arabic origin, here applied to reeds or canes through which are blown poisoned darts--the _sompites_ (or _sumpitans_) of the text. (See Retana and Pastells's note in _Combés_, col. 783.) [88] _Sabanilla_, diminutive form of _sabana_ (English, "Savannah"); a name given by Corcuera's Spanish soldiers to the fortress which was constructed, under the direction of Father Melchor de Vera, at that point in Mindanao, south from Lake Lanao. Puerto de la Sabanilla was anciently called Tuboc, on account of the springs that flow there ... which form the river now named Malabang. The etymology of this last name indicates the formation of land by the deposits made by the river, which may also be seen in the delta of the Rio Grande of Mindanao. (Retana and Pastells, in _Combés_, col. 760.) Tuboc is the name of a modern pueblo on the eastern shore of Illana Bay.