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
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[The eagerness of the Zambals for plunder soon induces them to send
the bishop and the priests to Santa Catalina, so that they may loot
the bishop's house and whatever of value remains in it. On the way
they see many corpses of Indians slain by the foe; the village of
Bantay is burned, only the church and convent, and a tiled house,
are left standing. Arrived at Santa Catalina, the Zambals who escort
the priests proceed to plunder and burn that village; and the fathers
are unable to procure any food until the next day, save a little rice,
and are compelled to flee for their lives from the flames--finally
spending the second day with no shelter save a tree, and no food save
what is given them by the Zambals from whom they beg it as alms.]
In the afternoon came Don Marcos Macasián to notify the fathers of the
order given by his chief, Don Jacinto, that the bishop and the rest
who were with him should go on with the rebel army, which included
three hundred Ilocan Indians--some forced to join them, and others
who were traitors; counting these with the Pangasinans and Zambals,
the whole number was about three thousand. He brought some talabones
[93] in which the bishop and the fathers were accommodated--although
but poorly, on account of the few men available to carry them, and
the ill-will of the bearers. On this account, and so that they might
aid the bishop, who was in poor health, the religious and the priests
were reduced to traveling on foot over most of the route from Santa
Catalina to Narbacán--where it is necessary to go through the Agayayos,
which are certain cliffs very difficult of passage.... In the middle
of the [second] day they reached Agayayos, and at nine in the night
they entered Narbacán. At the entrance to this village the Zambals
had a skirmish with the Indians of that district, who, allied with
the Tinguianes, did all the harm that they could to the Zambals. So
daring were they that they seized and carried away one of the men
who were escorting the fathers, and, without his companions being
able to prevent it, the assailants cut off his head, and ran into
the woods. In this manner more than four hundred Zambals had already
died. Moreover, they had thickly planted the road from Narbacán with
sharp stakes, in order that the Zambals might not use it; and for
this reason the fathers suffered greatly, because they traveled on
foot. As soon as they arrived at Narbacán, they notified the native
governor [gobernadorcillo], (who was the father of the traitor Don
Juan de Pacadua), who gave the fathers sufficient cause to fear; for
between him and his blacks he held the fathers fast, unwilling to let
them go, by saying that he preferred that they should be entertained
in his own house, which was quite spacious, and not in the convent,
which was ill supplied. The fathers would not go anywhere except to
the convent, and thus the contest lasted until the arrival of the
bishop; he also insisted on going to the convent, with which they
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