[327] Pedro Murillo Velarde was born August 6, 1696, at Villa Laujar, Granada, and entered the Jesuit novitiate at the age of 22. Having entered the Philippine missions, he was long a professor in the university of Manila; and later was rector at Antipolo, visitor to the Mindanao missions, and procurator at Rome and Madrid. He died at the hospital of Puerto Santa Maria, November 30, 1753. Murillo Velarde is one of the more noted among Jesuit writers. His principal works are the following: Cursus juris canonici, hispani et indici (Madrid, 1743); Historia de la provincia de Philipinas de la Compañia de Jesus (Manila, 1749); and Geographica historica (Madrid, 1752), in ten volumes. In the Historia (which work we have used freely in the present series, as material for annotation) was published his noted map of the Philippine Islands, the first detailed map of the archipelago; it was made by order of the governor of the island, Valdes Tamón, in 1734. [328] A kind of sausage composed of lean pork, almonds, pineapple kernels, and honey. [329] This sentence is missing in Father Navarro's copy. [330] Literally "lose a foothold." [331] Delgado here refers to the "Opinion" by Murillo Velarde which is prefixed to vol. i of San Antonio's Chronicas; this is dated at San Miguel, May 19, 1738, and contains a detailed description of the products of the islands--vegetable, animal, and mineral--from which we extract his description of the peoples therein, as follows: "The natives of these islands are generally called Indians, because these islands are included in the demarcation of the Western Indias--although properly they are in the Eastern hemisphere, because, as they are distant from España more than a hundred and eighty degrees of longitude, which makes the half-circuit [of the globe], it necessarily follows that they must be on the side of the East. All the Indians resemble one another, especially in the yellowish-brown color and the flattened nose; and there is little difference between the individuals. In the island of Negros, between Cavitan and Sipalay, I encountered heathen blacks with crinkled hair, as if they were from Guinea. The people who are here called creoles are of a swarthy brown color, with withered skin, and are quite civilized and capable. As for the origin of the Indians, I am inclined to think that they originate from Malayos, on account of the similarity of their language; for by examining on various occasions a Malay (a native of Maláca) who could speak several languages fluently, and a Ternatan, and Lutaos and Subanos, I have ascertained the following: In the Malay, "sky" is called languit, and the same in Tagálog, in Lutáo, and Subáno; "man" [varon] is lalaqui in Malay, as in the Tagálog and Bisayan; "tongue" is dila in Malay, as in Tagálog; "white" is puti in Malay, as in Tagálog, Subáno, and Lutáo. In other words the difference is but slight; thus, in Malay "land" is nigri, in Tagálog lupa, in Lutáo tana,