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 following account is taken from Salazar's Hist. de Sant. Rosario,
pp. 300-311. It was a revolt against ecclesiastical authority,
and would have ended in the liberation of the Zambals from all
Spanish rule, had they not been in awe of the fort and garrison
of Paynauen. Salazar's relation is interesting in regard to native
character and missionary methods.]
There was in the village of Balacbac an Indian chief named Dulinen,
to whose following belonged a great part of the village; although
he came down [from the hills] to live in a settlement, it was more
from worldly considerations than from affection for a Christian mode
of life, and he therefore left in the mountains all his valuables,
and a nephew of his for a guard over them. This was learned by an
Indian named Calignao, who went to the mountain and slew the nephew
of Dulinen--who, incensed at this, urged his followers to go with him
to the mountain to avenge the death of his nephew. When this came
to the knowledge of the servant of God, [111] he made every effort
to prevent this flight, and although he restrained some of them he
could not entirely prevent it; accordingly, that chief went back to
the mountains, followed by seventeen families. The commandant of the
fort at Paynaoven [sic], when he learned of this departure, attacked
the chief and his followers, and burned down the village of Aglao,
of which the murderer Calignao and the said chief were natives, and
which was near that of Balacbac, where at that time all lived. The
said Calignao had many kinsmen, and, in order that these might not go
away and flee to the mountains, father Fray Domingo endeavored to gain
their good-will; he asked the commandant for a commission as adjutant
for Calignao, which the commandant immediately gave him--adding,
to pacify the Indians, that the killing by Calignao had been done
in compliance with a command by the government that all those should
be killed who would not come down to the settlements, etc. With this
the men of Balacbac were calmed, but their quiet did not last long;
for a relative of Calignao named Dagdagan, who accompanied the
commandant and his soldiers, promised to attack the chief who had
fled. Entering the woods to carry out this plan, he went but a few
paces when he was slain by a Negrillo of the mountains; and, through
the mischief-making of a wicked Indian, his relatives believed that
the religious had occasioned this death. They assembled to celebrate
his funeral rites with much wine-drinking (a common usage among these
infidels); and their carousal resulted in an agreement to cut off
the head of the servant of God, for which exploit Calignao offered
himself, in return for the kind acts which father Fray Domingo had
done for him. And now that we have this evil man under consideration
[entre manos] it will be well to point out something of his life,
in order that what remains to be told of him may not afterward cause
surprise.
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