[86] Domingo Collantes, the author of the fourth part of the Dominican history of the Philippines, was a native of Villa de Herrin de Campos, in the bishopric of Palencia. He professed in the convent at Valladolid, in 1764, and arrived in Manila, July 8, 1769. He held several conventual posts in his order there, among them that of provincial. The bishopric of Nueva Cáceres was later given to him. His death occurred in Manila in 1808 at the age of sixty. See Pardo de Tavera's Biblioteca filipina, p. 107. [87] Spanish, romper el nombre; "to cease using the countersign of recognition, when daybreak comes, for which purpose the drums, cornets, trumpets, or other musical instruments give the signal with the call named diana" (Dominguez); cf. French reveille. [88] In Sulu roadstead; anchorage is north of the town. In channel between Sulu roadstead and Marongas is a pearl-oyster bed, which employs many boats. This is an important industry, pearls and pearl-shells being the chief articles in the export trade of the island. (U. S. Philippine Gazetteer.) [89] Colin (who was at that time in Joló) says of this (Labor evangélica, ed. 1663, p. 49): "There was found near the island of Joló a piece [of amber] which weighed more than eight arrobas, of the best kind that exists, which is the gray [el gris]." Retana and Pastells regard Combés's ambar as meaning amber, the vegetable fossil; but it is possible that all these writers mean rather ambergris, which is supposed to be a morbid secretion of the sperm whale, and has been used as a perfume. [90] It was Lopez who soon afterward, having gone to Manila to report results to Governor Fajardo, secured (largely through the influence of Venegas, who was very friendly to Lopez) permission for six Jesuits to labor in the islands of the south, the rebuilding of their residence at Zamboanga, and the exemption of the Lutaos from tribute, and the appointment of Rafael Omen de Azevedo as governor. (Murillo Velarde, Hist. de Philipinas, fol. 151 b.) [91] In the text, desvelar, "to keep awake"--but from the context, apparently an error of some sort. [92] Spanish, dió una bofetada, literally, "gave a blow in the face"--in the Spanish a play on words which it is difficult to retain in English. [93] This order was carried out by Balatamay, on December 13, 1655. See Combés's detailed account of this tragedy, as cited by Diaz. [94] Pedro Durán de Monforte; his term of office began in 1649, and lasted until Esteybar's arrival at Zamboanga (Dec. 2, 1656). [95] "La Silanga, which is a strait that is formed by the island of Tulaya with the land of Mindanao" (Diaz, p. 561). Retana and Pastells, in their edition of Combés, make Tulaya the modern Tulayan, near Sulu--an evident error, from Diaz's statement. [96] Referring to the governor ad interim from November, 1661 to February, 1662; Combés describes at length his "persecution" of the Jesuits at Zamboanga (col. 591-609), but does not mention his name.