[47] The same auditor (see note, above) says that the Talaos "are four islands lying in the same district as those of Sanguil and Siao. The country is poor, the people barbarous and naked, and the islands abound in cocoas and vegetables, some little rice (on which they live), and some roots (with which they pay their tribute). Two islands and part of another are vassals of the king of Tabucan; the fourth island and part of that which pays tribute to the king of Tabucan are vassals of the king of Siao. They have their own petty chief, who was baptized in Manila; and there are now eight hundred baptized families there." See Pastells's _Colin_, iii, p. 814. [48] When Father Colin wrote, the Dutch had already discovered, explored, and delineated in their maps with sufficient accuracy, the coasts of New Guinea and New Holland, or Australia and New Zealand. See Pastells's _Colin_, iii, p. 816. [49] Alonso de Castro was born at Lisbon. Sommervogel (_Bibliotheque_) says that he labored for nine years in the missions of Terrenate, and that he was martyred January 1, 1558. [50] _i.e._, "in both courts," meaning the outer court of ecclesiastical justice, and the inner court of conscience. See VOL. VIII, p. 278. [51] For further historical and descriptive information regarding the cathedral of Manila (especially the present structure, completed in 1879), see Fonseca's _Resena cronologica de la catedral de Manila_ (Manila, 1880). [52] _Marginal note_: "In the year 1571 the first Inquisition was established in Mexico, and its first inquisitor was Don Pedro Moya de Contreras, afterward visitor, archbishop of Mexico, and its viceroy; and later president of the royal Council of the Indias. See Torquemada, in _La monarchia indiana_, book 5, chapter 24." [53] That decree organized the tribunals of the Crusade, and made provision for their conduct and for the care of the revenues from the bulls. Various laws on this subject are found in _Recopilacion leyes de Indias_, lib. i, tit. xx; one of these may be found _ante_, pp. 76, 77. [54] Among the media employed by the Holy See in the restoration of one's conscience to its good estate, are the bulls of composition. In the case of persons in possession of ill-gotten goods, as prebendaries who have forfeited their canonical allotments, or trustees who have maladministered estates, and the like, an arrangement (Latin, _compositio_) is sometimes made--only, however, when the rightful owners or heirs of the property in question are unknown (_si domins sint ignoti_), whereby the said "unjust steward" is allowed to keep for himself a moiety of what does not belong to him, on condition that the rest be handed over for the maintenance of church services, or institutions of charity, as hospitals, asylums, and the like. See Ferraris's _Bibliotheca_, art. "Bulla Cruciatae."--Rev. T. C. Middleton, O.S.A.