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 Lutaos dispersed through the place, and, breaking into a house,
found the mother of the traitor and parricide Sumoroy; and they
dragged her out and tore her to pieces. Sumoroy had been sent down
[from their stronghold] the day before, secretly, in a hammock, and
all the children and women the rebels had already placed in safety;
for, from the day when they saw the Samboangan armada, they felt that
their cause was lost, and, lacking confidence in the outcome, they
forestalled the danger. Thus was ended this longed-for enterprise,
and the war in Ibabao; for the natives, now disarmed and divided, would
have no courage left, save for flight, and the hardships of a life so
full of fear [as that of fugitives] would oblige them to surrender,
one by one--as was actually the case. Accordingly, the armada [and
its men] took their departure, leaving the islands thankful for what
they had accomplished and edified by their good example. For in the
heat of conflict and in dangerous encounters (which is the time when
the natural disposition and the inner soul are displayed), those
soldiers did not fail to invoke the sweet names of Jesus and Mary,
without ceasing or neglecting this in the utmost confusion and ardor
of battle, giving pious examples to the Christian soldiery--to the
admiration of the natives, [although they were] accustomed to these
[pious] observances; since the clamorous efforts [of the soldiers],
and solicitude for their danger, disturb the piety of even the oldest
veterans.
[We append to this the following account from Diaz's Conquistas
(pp. 517-523), as being more detailed and furnishing a somewhat
different light on various incidents of the insurrection. In order
to place it in the present document, as belonging to this special
subject, it has been removed from its place in Diaz's history of his
order and its missions (see VOL. XXXVII, pp. 149-284).]
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