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
The victory completed, Francisco de Esteybar withdrew with his army to
Namacpacán, where he had left Captain Simón de Fuentes with a division
of the army; they took with them Gumapos and many other prisoners,
and afterward sent them to Vigán. There, in company with others, they
hanged the rebel leader, and after his death cut off that sacrilegious
hand, which was fastened near the house of the bishop. The loss of the
Spaniards was very small, but a circumstance worthy of admiration was
noted; it was that, not only in this battle but in other encounters
which had occurred, all those of the Zambal army who were slain lay
face downward, and all the dead of the Spanish army had their faces
turned upward--as if by this God had chosen to show that the Zambals
died under the curse and excommunication of the bishop. On account of
this so fortunate success, Generals Francisco de Esteybar and Felipe
de Ugalde talked of returning to Manila, believing that now everything
was quiet; but information came to them of the new uprising by the
Indians of Bacarra, and Francisco de Esteybar at once ordered the army
to march to that village. The manner in which those Indians revolted
is as follows: I have already pointed out the multitude of letters
and documents which the usurping king Malóng wrote [to the leading
men] everywhere--more especially to Don Juan Magsanop and Don Pedro
Almazán. The latter was a very rich chief, a native of the village
of San Nicolás (then a visita of Ilauag), and so bitterly hostile to
the Spaniards that he kept in his house as many pairs of fetters as
there were fathers and Spaniards in the entire province, in order to
fasten these on them when he should have opportunity. This Don Pedro
Almazán formed an alliance with Don Juan Magsanop, a native of Bangi,
a visita of the village of Bacarra; and with Don Gaspar Cristóbal,
headman of Ilauag, and a native of that village. The former, in order
to make sure of Don Gaspar Cristóbal, asked him for his daughter, to
marry her to his own oldest son; and these three Indians, as being so
influential, continually stirred up others to join their conspiracy,
and called in the Calanasa tribe to aid them.
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