[57] "For with the enemy came many women clad in white, and many children, in order to pick up bits of earth and scatter them on the wind, as the demon had told them--believing that if they did so the Spaniards would fall dead; but the test of this proved very costly to them. The demon had also promised them that he would resuscitate those slain in battle; but, when they carried some of the dead to his temple for him to do this, he replied, with ridiculous excuses, that he could not do it." (Diaz, p. 135.) [58] According to Diaz (p. 136), he was shot and then burned; also many of the rebels were hanged or shot. [59] See description of this earthquake in VOL. XXXV, pp. 217-226. [60] Gapán (or Gapang) is a town in the southern part of Nueva Ecija, Luzon, near San Isidro and the Rio Grande de la Pampanga. [61] Juan de Abarca, a native of Madrid, came to the islands in the Augustinian mission of 1635, and was a minister in Pampangan and Visayan villages during twenty years, except at times filling official posts in Manila. He died there in 1656. [62] See account of the conquest of Luzón, in VOL III, pp. 141-172; but the name Matanda does not occur therein. [63] Alluding to the fact that it was the Lutaos--who lived in Basilan, Joló, and other islands south of Mindanao--who aided the Spaniards to quell this insurrection. [64] That is, the missionaries had interfered with an illicit amour of Sumoroy's (Concepción, Hist. de Philipinas, vi, p. 251). [65] Meaning that at a certain part of the ascent, where but one man at a time could pass, each had to use both hands and feet for climbing, leaving his weapons with the man next to him, the latter handing them up afterward; and so on, with each in turn. See Murillo Velarde's Hist. de Philipinas, fol. 174. [66] An allusion to La Rochelle, considered the most strongly fortified town in France.