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
He sent a despatch by Adjutant Francisco Amaya, accompanied by seven
soldiers, to the province of Pangasinán, to notify the alcalde-mayor,
named Francisco Gómez Pulido, of the outcome in Pampanga, in order that
he might with this example be on the alert in his own province. Don
Sabiniano also ordered him to communicate this information to the
alcaldes-mayor of Ilocos (Don Alonso de Peralta) and of Cagayán,
and warn them to keep watch on the movements of the natives, and
to endeavor that the submission of the Pampangos should confirm the
others in their tranquillity. Nor was the governor content with this
activity only; but he sent a sealed letter to the sargento-mayor of
the royal regiment in Manila, Francisco Pedro de Quirós, with orders
that he should deliver it, in a well-equipped champan with twelve
soldiers, to a thoroughly reliable person; and that the latter, when
two leguas beyond Mariveles, should open the letter, and execute the
orders that he should find therein. These were, that he should take
the route to Pangasinán, and deliver the letters which he had sent to
the alcalde-mayor, in which he warned him by the events in Pampanga
of the danger which he had cause to suspect in the province which was
in his charge, and of the watchful care that he must exercise over
the actions of the natives therein; and that if any Pampangos should
be dispersed through his villages--and he regarded it as certain
that such had been sent, in order to form conspiracies among those
natives--he should by suitable plans arrest them and send them to
Manila. Having made these arrangements, the governor returned to the
capital, taking in his company Don Francisco Mañago, under pretext of
employing him in the office of master-of-camp for those of his tribe
in that city. Under the pretext of honoring this chief, he cloaked
his anxiety to remove from the sight of the Pampangos the man to
whom all eyes were directed on account of his authority and power,
and from whom, it was understood, their resolution took new breath;
for, if their regard for peace grew weak, his prestige and authority
might not be lacking for seditions--although this alone was not the
sole incentive which moved them, since it was accompanied by the
influence of José Celis, a native of that province, who was incited
by the laws that he had learned, which had been taught to him by the
auditor Don Francisco Samaniego y Cuesta, under whom he had served. At
the same time he carried with him others of the more guilty, whom he
attracted with the hope of greater rewards; there was no discussion
of other modes of satisfaction, as the occasion did not allow them.
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