The Philippine Islands, 1493-1898, Volume 43, 1670-1700: 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 43, 1670-1700: 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 Bilanes or Buluanes (Bil-an, Bul-u-an, Bulú-an) [150] reside in
the vicinity about the lake of Bulúan and in the mountains between
the said lake and the bay of Sarangani. They are the most exploited
tribe and the most degraded physically except the Mamanuas. They are
fugitive, timid, docile, amiable, and easy to reduce. In two of the
islands of Sarangani, Bálud and Tumánao, live also about 1,500 Bilanes
who maintain good relations with those of their race in Mindanao,
and with the Manobos of Culáman. They occupy color no. 16 on the map.
The Subánon ("people of the river") [151] are a tribe that has
become degenerate because of the persecutions which they have had to
endure from the Moros who collect large tributes from them. They are
husbandmen, but the Moros gain the benefit of their sweat. They are
long-suffering and pacific for they are not accustomed to the handling
of arms; and they are superstitious and ignorant. Their docility would
render their complete reduction very easy. They occupy almost all the
peninsula of Sibuguey, and are contiguous to the Moros of Lánao and of
the bay of Illana. The latter make use of them, for they enslave them
in order to make them work their fields. The military road from Tucúran
to Maránding which has been ordered to be built by his Excellency,
Captain-general Terrero, [152] will destroy the dominion exercised by
the Illanos Moros and those of Lánao over the Subanos, for it will
destroy the piracy and captivity because of the impossibility of
communication. At the same time it will facilitate the action of the
missionaries in the reduction of the said heathens. At the present time
there are five reductions of Subanos in the Dapitan district, which
have about 2,000 new Christians; another in the Zamboanga district in
the jurisdiction of Ayala; while three reductions have already been
begun successfully on the bay of Sibuguey, namely, Tupilak, Bulúan,
and Bancálan. The Subanos are designated on the map at color no. 17.
The Lutangos Moros are Calibuganes. They are of a timid and peaceful
nature and live in Silanga de la Olutanga. They engage in fishing,
and have no other dwelling, according to Figueroa, than their vintas in
which they live. Each family carries with it its miserable possessions,
and they pass years without setting foot on the land for even the
fuel that they need is furnished by the mangrove trees. They generally
go naked. Their number does not exceed three or four hundred. On the
map they occupy color no. 20.
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