The Philippine Islands, 1493-1898 - Volume 41 of 55, 1691-1700: 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 41 of 55, 1691-1700: 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
2. Calignao had an extensive and strong kindred. Because they did not
flee with him, father Fray Domingo endeavored to win them over. He
asked for an adjutant's staff from the commandant of the fort, and
dignified Calignao with it. Then in order to restrain the other side,
it was published that the murder of the nephew [of Dalinen] was by
the command of the government, which had ordered that all who would
not reduce themselves to village life should be killed. That method,
however, was insufficient to quiet them, but, on the contrary,
roused the factions to a higher pitch. To please the commandant and
to give stronger force to his faction, Calignao promised to assault
Dalinen. He went into the mountain to put that promise into execution,
and after a short time, Dalinen was killed by a Negrito. His relatives
were persuaded that the father had had a hand in that murder, and
determined to pay him back. The same Calignao offered to do the deed,
for this is what it means to benefit apostatized evil-doers. He sought
an opportune occasion for the execution of his wicked intent, and found
it in a journey which the father made to Baubuen to visit a communal
house which he was building for strangers, and in order to confess
father Fray Juan de Rois, [76] who was the minister there. During the
absence of the father, Calignao descended the mountain, visited his
relatives, and was informed that the minister would return in three
days. He left his relatives, and in company with a faithless Negrito
went to await the father at the bank of a large river, by which it
was necessary to pass. When Father Perez reached that place, Calignao
discharged an arrow, which passed before the father's breast without
doing him any harm and lodged in a neighboring tree. When the father
quite naturally turned his head to see who was firing at him, the
Negrito Quibacat discharged his arrow, which, entering the father's
body three fingers below the left breast, came out more than four
fingers at the right side of his back. It was a twisted arrow, and
when father Fray Domingo pulled on it, the wound became worse. With
the most intense pain that he suffered, he broke out into "Jesus,
be with me! Let them commend me to God, for I am dying."
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