The Philippine Islands, 1493-1898, Volume 38, 1674-1683: 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 38, 1674-1683: 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
On the following day, the twentieth of January, the Zambals arrived
at Vigán. [The bishop waits for them to come, prepared to say mass for
their benefit, since they have sent him word that they wish to hear it,
"a singular mode of hostility, and a still more rare mode of devotion,
which looks more like craft than simplicity, although all traits at
once are possible in these people." A number of the Zambals, including
their leaders, hear mass with much reverence, and even confess to the
priests, saying that many of their men have come on this raid through
fear, rather than their own inclination. Most of the troop, however,
proceed to loot the village; the people take refuge in the bishop's
house and the church, thus saving their lives, although they endure
great suffering and privation by being shut up indoors for two days,
with little food or drink. Finally the fathers persuade the Zambals
to let the people return to their houses.] On that day the enemy
appointed Don Juan Celiboto headman of the village, and from that time
the Zambals made great haste to seize as many Indians as they could,
both men and women, to be their slaves. Only the sacristans had been
left on guard in the church; the Zambals slew them together in the
baptistery, and plundered it of all the ornaments and cloth that
they found; and there they also killed a negro who tried to avail
himself of the church to escape from their hands. Many Ilocans died in
various places on that day--so many that when the number was reckoned
it was found that the village of Bantay alone had eighty [92] dead,
whose bodies they hid among the hills, so that they might not be
seen by the fathers. In those villages all was confusion, outcries,
the ringing of bells, the discharge of arquebuses, and shouts; and
among the ecclesiastics all was affliction and grief at seeing so
many calamities, without being able to remedy them.
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