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 chief leader Sumoroy and his sorcerer father refused to put in
an appearance, or to talk of peace. But the very ones whom he had
caused to rebel killed him, and carried his head to Don Ginés de
Rojas, although they had been so loyal to him before that when the
alcalde-mayor of Leite went at the beginning to reduce them to peace,
and asked them as the first condition to deliver to him the head of
Sumoroy, they, making light of the request, sent him the head of
a swine. But afterward, as a token of their true obedience, they
delivered the head, without any one asking for it. Don Juan Ponce
remained in hiding in the island of Cebú for a long time, but after
having obtained pardon he returned to Palapag; there he committed
crimes that were so atrocious that the alcalde-mayor seized him and
sent him to Manila, where he paid for those crimes on the scaffold. He
who had the best end was Don Pedro Caamug; for he was the first to
present himself, and showed great loyalty in the reduction of the
others. He continued all his life to be very quiet, and was governor
of his village, where he was highly esteemed; and it was proved that
he was not the one who had killed Father Vicente with his hands,
although he was captain of that band. Moreover, it was found to be
advisable to overlook much on that occasion, as the quiet of all the
Pintados Islands, who were awaiting the end of the rebels of Palapag,
depended on it.
[The following additional information is obtained from Concepción's
Hist. de Philipinas, vi, pp. 247-280:]
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