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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

History

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 most pacific are the Yácanes Moros (no. 22) of the interior of
Basílan; the Sánguiles (number 19); and those of Sarangani, except
some who have come from the Rio Grande. The Moros of the gulf of
Dávao and Mayo are not feared both because of their isolation and
their small number.

[Continuing Father Pastells speaks of the ethnographical map that
accompanies this volume of the Letters. He mentions the fact that
Blumentritt published a map of like character in 1884. The present
map is made from information obtained directly by the Jesuit
missionaries. Concrete information as to the various dialects is
still in so incipient a condition that nothing can as yet be written
definitely on the subject, but Father Pastells holds out the hope
that such information may be given in the near future.]






LETTER FROM FATHER JOSÉ MARIA CLOTET TO THE REVEREND FATHER RECTOR
OF THE ATENEO MUNICIPAL


                                                Talisayan, May 11, 1889.

    Pax Christi.

    My dearly beloved Father Rector in Christ:


In my last letter to your Reverence, I indicated to you that I was
gathering some data in regard to the religion, manners, and customs
of the mountain race. Now during the days of our stay in Talisayan,
I shall make use of my spare moments to write your Reverence what
I have been able to learn in the various reductions and visitas of
said heathens. In the present letter, however, I shall only give
information of some interesting matters which are worth knowing,
and are not unsuitable for a familiar letter.

In order to give the fullest information of the mountain race, I shall
take in general the water farthest up, beginning with their name and
with the territory which they occupy. I shall tell something of their
religion, false beliefs, and peculiar customs, and, not forgetting
their progress and their industries, I shall end by setting down,
although in passing, the fruit which our missionaries have gathered in
a short time among those heathens. I shall not bind myself, however,
to tell everything, but only some of the most remarkable things which
have come to my notice.

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Opening the text

History

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 most pacific are the Yácanes Moros (no. 22) of the interior of
Basílan; the Sánguiles (number 19); and those of Sarangani, except
some who have come from the Rio Grande. The Moros of the gulf of
Dávao and Mayo are not feared both because of their isolation and
their small number.

[Continuing Father Pastells speaks of the ethnographical map that
accompanies this volume of the Letters. He mentions the fact that
Blumentritt published a map of like character in 1884. The present
map is made from information obtained directly by the Jesuit
missionaries. Concrete information as to the various dialects is
still in so incipient a condition that nothing can as yet be written
definitely on the subject, but Father Pastells holds out the hope
that such information may be given in the near future.]






LETTER FROM FATHER JOSÉ MARIA CLOTET TO THE REVEREND FATHER RECTOR
OF THE ATENEO MUNICIPAL


                                                Talisayan, May 11, 1889.

    Pax Christi.

    My dearly beloved Father Rector in Christ:


In my last letter to your Reverence, I indicated to you that I was
gathering some data in regard to the religion, manners, and customs
of the mountain race. Now during the days of our stay in Talisayan,
I shall make use of my spare moments to write your Reverence what
I have been able to learn in the various reductions and visitas of
said heathens. In the present letter, however, I shall only give
information of some interesting matters which are worth knowing,
and are not unsuitable for a familiar letter.

In order to give the fullest information of the mountain race, I shall
take in general the water farthest up, beginning with their name and
with the territory which they occupy. I shall tell something of their
religion, false beliefs, and peculiar customs, and, not forgetting
their progress and their industries, I shall end by setting down,
although in passing, the fruit which our missionaries have gathered in
a short time among those heathens. I shall not bind myself, however,
to tell everything, but only some of the most remarkable things which
have come to my notice.

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

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