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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[105] Thus in the text, but evidently an error; it should doubtless
be regarded as an error for Malonor.
[106] A similar death was the fate of that most pious father Fray
Isidro Badrena--on April 9 in the year 1874, in the hills near the
town of Tubungan--when he was exhorting some apostate Indians to
desist from offering an idolatrous sacrifice.--Rev. Tirso López, O.S.A.
Tubungan is seventeen miles west-northwest of Iloilo.
[107] The modern form of this name is Jalaur; this fine river, with
its numerous affluents, waters the northeastern part of the province
of Iloilo, Panay. The "river of Laglag" is evidently the Ulián, which
flows into the Jalaur near Laglag (the modern Dueñas). Apparently the
culprits, both living and dead, were fastened to stakes in the river,
to be eaten by crocodiles.
[108] Delgado relates this incident (Hist. de Filipinas, p. 280) as a
specimen of the credulity of the natives, and adds this other instance:
"While I was in the village of Lipa, the discovery was made in the
village of Tanauan of a mine which was said to be of silver. Officials
and workmen were sent to examine it, and test the ore, by the governor
Don Fausto Cruzat y Góngora; they did so diligently, but the mine
said only, Argentum et aurum non est mihi [i.e., "Silver and gold
have I none"]. At that time the devil caused some arrant knave to
spread the lying tale that the miners declared that the mine would
not yield silver until this were done: all the Visayans of Comintan
must be seized and their eyes gouged out, and these must be mixed
with other ingredients, and the ore-vein of the mine rubbed with that
compound. This was so thoroughly believed that every one was anxious
and tearful, and the old women hid themselves in the grain-fields; and
it took a long time to quiet them, with much labor of the [religious]
ministers (whom they did not believe, because these were Castilians),
until in the course of time they were undeceived."
[109] Apparently a misprint, as Diaz usually makes it Pignauen, but
both forms seem improbable, as compared with Paynauén--cf. that name
in next section of this document, and in Concepción (viii, p. 14)--and
suggest carelessness in transcription from the MS. of Diaz. It is
written Paynaven in various documents cited in Reseña biográfica, i,
p. 490, et seq. Neither name appears in modern gazetteers.
[110] He was killed in the expedition against the Igorrotes, about
1666; Diaz says (p. 654) that Ugalde went with four thousand pesos
to pay the troops, without sufficient escort, and was waylaid and
slain by Zambals. Paynauén was founded at that time.
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