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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.

History

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

The abandonment of our military posts in Mindanao was, although it is
excused by the embarrassed condition of the capital of the islands,
an exceedingly imprudent measure, since, in order to provide for an
uncertain danger, the Visayan Islands were left exposed to another
which was more immediate and real--to say nothing of the retrogression
that must necessarily result to our domination among the natives
of Mindanao, where at that time over seventy thousand Christians
lived. The pirate who could cause such a panic in the authorities of
Manila, and occasioned so great losses to the undertaking of subduing
the Mahometan Malay pirates, died without carrying out his threats.

During the government of Don Juan de Vargas (1679), the sultan of
Borneo sent an embassy to ask that mercantile dealings might be
established with Filipinas; and Vargas in his turn sent another
and a very distinguished one, headed by Sargento-mayor Don Juan
Morales de Valenzuela. In 1701 occurred in the south of Filipinas
an event as tragic as unusual. The sultan of Joló went to visit
the ruler of Mindanao, for greater ostentation taking with him as
escort a squadron composed of sixty-seven vessels. At sight of such a
retinue the sultan of Mindanao, Cutay [98] (the successor of the noted
Corralat), feared that the other had designs that were not peaceable,
and commanded that the mouth of the river should be closed; but the
sultan of Joló, offended thereat, dared the other to a personal
combat. This challenge was accepted, and the two sultans engaged
in a hand-to-hand contest, so fierce that each slew the other; and
immediately war was kindled between the two peoples. The Joloans,
breaking down the stakes which closed the river, retired to their
own island with many weapons and spoils. The new ruler of Mindanao
asked aid from the governor of Manila, Don Domingo Zubálburu; but
the latter advised that they should lay aside their dissensions,
and for that purpose sent the Jesuit Father Antonio de Borja, who
was able to attain his object. (Montero y Vidal, Hist. piratería, i,
pp. 244-252. Cf. Combés, Hist. Mindanao, col. 610-640.)

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History

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

The abandonment of our military posts in Mindanao was, although it is
excused by the embarrassed condition of the capital of the islands,
an exceedingly imprudent measure, since, in order to provide for an
uncertain danger, the Visayan Islands were left exposed to another
which was more immediate and real--to say nothing of the retrogression
that must necessarily result to our domination among the natives
of Mindanao, where at that time over seventy thousand Christians
lived. The pirate who could cause such a panic in the authorities of
Manila, and occasioned so great losses to the undertaking of subduing
the Mahometan Malay pirates, died without carrying out his threats.

During the government of Don Juan de Vargas (1679), the sultan of
Borneo sent an embassy to ask that mercantile dealings might be
established with Filipinas; and Vargas in his turn sent another
and a very distinguished one, headed by Sargento-mayor Don Juan
Morales de Valenzuela. In 1701 occurred in the south of Filipinas
an event as tragic as unusual. The sultan of Joló went to visit
the ruler of Mindanao, for greater ostentation taking with him as
escort a squadron composed of sixty-seven vessels. At sight of such a
retinue the sultan of Mindanao, Cutay [98] (the successor of the noted
Corralat), feared that the other had designs that were not peaceable,
and commanded that the mouth of the river should be closed; but the
sultan of Joló, offended thereat, dared the other to a personal
combat. This challenge was accepted, and the two sultans engaged
in a hand-to-hand contest, so fierce that each slew the other; and
immediately war was kindled between the two peoples. The Joloans,
breaking down the stakes which closed the river, retired to their
own island with many weapons and spoils. The new ruler of Mindanao
asked aid from the governor of Manila, Don Domingo Zubálburu; but
the latter advised that they should lay aside their dissensions,
and for that purpose sent the Jesuit Father Antonio de Borja, who
was able to attain his object. (Montero y Vidal, Hist. piratería, i,
pp. 244-252. Cf. Combés, Hist. Mindanao, col. 610-640.)

Public-domain text, read in full here on John Shaqi.

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