The Philippine Islands, 1493-1898, Volume 29 of 55, 1638–40: 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 29 of 55, 1638–40: 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
The governor after having given the village over to sack, having
gathered all the arms of the enemy--which, as aforesaid, consisted
of eight bronze pieces with ladles, one swivel-gun of cast iron,
twenty-seven versos, and more than one hundred muskets and arquebuses;
besides a very great number of cannon-chambers, and iron, balls,
and powder; campilans (what the Indians call by this name resemble
certain cutlasses), lances, javelins, and many other kinds of poisoned
missile weapons; and also after having repaired the fort which the
enemy had (now called San Francisco Xavier) with new and suitable
fortifications, which he planned, and himself commenced with his own
hands to execute; and having lodged his men without the loss of even
one (for only two servants deserted): he retired to a large mosque,
where he established a bodyguard. He first had the mosque blessed,
and a chair and some Arabic books of the cursed Koran burned. Quite
necessary was the garrison and watch set by the vigilant governor
during the days of his stay there, while awaiting the rest of his
fleet, in order to drive away some false and pernicious embassies, and
to defend themselves from the continual surprises which the defeated
Moros sprang upon them, especially at night. Our men did not receive
much hurt from them; on the contrary, various bodies of troops,
leaving their posts, overran the country, burning the villages, and
committing other damage on the enemy. Many Christian captives fled from
the enemy on this account, and were immediately sent to Sanboangan.
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