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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[83] In Bolinao was a chief named Sumulay, a relative of Malóng, who
tried to further the latter's ambitious schemes; Sumulay was opposed by
the missionary there, a discalced Augustinian named Juan Blancas. On
January 5 Ugalde arrived at Bolinao, and conferred with Blancas. As
the chief strength of the insurgents lay in their poisoned arrows,
which caused mortal wounds, the friar induced a friendly chief to
supply the Spanish troops with an antidote for this poison. Ugalde
also procured there supplies of various kinds--among them, small boats
which could enter the creeks, and hides of cattle with which to form
shelters against the enemy's arrows. (Concepción, Hist. de Philipinas,
vii, pp. 16, 26, 27.)
[84] Juan Camacho made his profession in the Dominican convent of
Almagro, April 19, 1638, and came to the Philippines in 1648. Most of
his remaining years were spent in the Pangasinán missions; but in 1668
he became prior of the Manila convent, and a year later provincial. In
his old age, he was summoned to Mexico by the Inquisition on a
scandalous charge; his innocence being declared after four years,
he returned to the islands, and died at Manila in 1700. (Reseña
biográfica, i, p. 471.)
[85] Probably alluding to Santa Cruz's Hist. Sant. Rosario; he mentions
the insurgent leader Malóng as dying "a very good Christian" (p. 340),
and the insurgents as deluded and misled. His account of the rebellion
is much shorter than Diaz's. It will be remembered that the Dominicans
had spiritual charge of Pangasinán.
[86] Bernardino Márquez, a native of Galicia, made his profession
in the convent of Toro, and came to the islands in 1645. He spent
the rest of his life mainly in the Ilocan missions, and died in
1680. (Pérez's Catálogo, p. 120.)
[87] A misprint for balarao (or bararao), another name for the
kris--see VOL. XVI, p. 81, and VOL. XXVIII, p. 55.
[88] Thus in the text, in most places; but in Pérez's Catálogo the
name is written "de la Isla."
[89] Juan Polanco was a native of the hill-country of Burgos, and
professed in the Dominican convent at Valladolid in 1639. He came
to the islands in 1658, and, after learning the Chinese language,
went to China; he spent two years there, suffering persecutions and
torture. He was then appointed procurator-general of his order at
Madrid and Rome, in which service he sent to the Philippines the
mission of 1666. He died at Sevilla, on December 2, 1671.
[90] Thus in text; apparently a misprint for Polanco.
[91] This name is not found in the gazetteers of the present time;
but it must have been in the mountains east of Vigán, from which
Narvacán is thirteen miles southeast.
[92] Concepción makes this number eight hundred (vii, p. 31), as does
Murillo Velarde (fol. 256). Both they and Diaz give the numbers in
words, not figures.
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