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.
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inspired with such terror that for many years they did not venture
to sally out for their usual raids, so much in safety as before. The
first time, Sargento-mayor Pedro Lozano went out to scour the seas
through which the Camucones might come to make their raids. In the
following year, Captain Don José de Novoa went out--a brave Galician,
the encomendero of Gapang--and as commander of the second galley
Captain Simón de Torres, an able soldier from Maluco; and they scoured
the coasts of Mindanao, committing some acts of hostility, their sole
object therein being to cause more terror than harm. And thus it was,
that with the fear which those piratical tribes had conceived of the
galleys neither Joloans, Mindanaos, nor Camucones dared, so long as
these lasted, to commit their former ravages. The same thing occurs
whenever there are galleys, even though they do not go out to sea and
are shut up in the port of Cavite. It is therefore very expedient to
keep vessels of this sort, in order to be free from the invasions of
those pirates. In view of this, Governor Don Domingo de Zabálburu built
two other galleys, which was the cause of the Joloans, Mindanaos, and
Camucones remaining, throughout his term of office, within their own
boundaries, although they had been in previous years, as we have seen,
a continual plague to these islands. (Diaz, Conquistas, p. 711.) [100]
NOTES
[1] Juan de Zarzuela was born in Argete on February 11, 1640. When
sixteen years old, he entered the Jesuit novitiate, and ten years later
went to the Philippines. He was rector at Iloilo, and vice-rector at
Cavite; rector and vice-rector at San José during seven years, and
procurator of the province during five; and filled other posts. He
died in Manila, May 27, 1706. (Murillo Velarde, fol 394 b.)
[2] A light sailing vessel, with one mast; a sloop. Cf. Dutch bylander,
a coasting vessel.
[3] Gaspar Marco was born in Biar, Valencia, January 25, 1660, and
became a Jesuit novice in 1682. Seven years later, he came to Manila,
and was for fifteen years procurator of the college there. After
filling other offices, he was sent as procurator of the province to
Madrid and Rome. He was taken ill in Spain, and died on September 8,
1716. (Murillo Velarde, fol. 406.)
[4] Paul Clain (originally Klein) was born at Agra, Bohemia, and
entered the Jesuit order September 14, 1669. In 1678 he went to Mexico,
and four years later to the Philippines; he there was rector in several
colleges, provincial, professor, and missionary. He died on August 30,
1717. (Sommervogel, ii, col. 1197.)
[5] Antonio Tuccio (misprinted Fuccio in our text) was born at
Messina, April 16, 1641, and became a Jesuit novice at the age of
seventeen. After completing his studies, he was a teacher during five
years; in 1672 went to the Philippines, where he was rector at Cavite
and Manila, and twice provincial. He died at Manila, February 4,
1716. (Sommervogel, viii, col. 265.)
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