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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[48] "Bohol, pertaining to the government of Zebú, and its spiritual
administration to the fathers of the Society of Jesus, who in this
island have in their charge six [sic] villages, the most important of
which are Loboc, Baclayón, Inabangan, Malabago, Malabohoc" (Diaz's
Conquistas, p. 132).
A note by Diaz's editor, Fray Tirso López, states that Bohol "now
[1890] belongs to the Recollects."
[49] "He made ready four caracoas, with such Spaniards as he could
find, and Indians from Sialo (which is the coast of Zebú), a very
warlike people; and set out for Bohol, not entrusting to any one else
an expedition so important" (Diaz, p. 133).
Diaz has evidently obtained most of his information from Murillo
Velarde. We present (in notes) only such matter as he gives additional
to the latter.
[50] Diaz states (p. 133) that these were both Pampango and Sialo
Indians, and numbered more than a thousand.
[51] "The insurgents fled to the mountain, where for four days our
men pursued them, slaying all that they encountered. They found
many persons who had died for lack of food, as they had made but
scanty provision of it, confiding in the promises of the demon, who
had promised them that he would change the leaves on the trees into
rice." (Diaz, p. 134.)
[52] "Laden with spoil and captives," and "leaving a garrison of
Spaniards and Pampangos" (Diaz, p. 134).
[53] Spanish, zarzas y espinas; probably meaning branches of thorny
shrubs, and trees. The defense of pointed stakes driven into the ground
(VOL. XXVII, p. 275) is called in Tagal suyac. Cf. description of
this in Ling Roth's Natives of Sarawak (London, 1896), i, p. 444,
and ii, pp. 110-115.
[54] Spanish, ballestones; but the contrivance mentioned in the
text refers to a trap used throughout the archipelago for hunting
large game; it is called belatic or balantic, and as it is sprung
discharges a sharp javelin or arrow. See description and illustration
of this trap in Reed's Negritos of Zambales (Manila, 1904), pp. 45,
46; and of a similar device used by the Dyaks and Malays of Borneo,
in Ling Roth's Natives of Sarawak, i, pp. 437-442. Cf. Diaz's mention
(Conquistas, p. 134) of these ballestones, "which they are wont to
set as snares for hunting deer."
[55] Fifty-seven years previously; Bancao must have been, then, at
least seventy-five years old at the time of this revolt; Diaz says
(p. 134) that Bancao was "very old and decrepit."
[56] According to Diaz (p. 135). "desiring to be king of the island
of Leyte."
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