The Philippine Islands, 1493-1898, Volume 44, 1700-1736: 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 44, 1700-1736: 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
With similar success the religion of Jesus Christ was published
along the coast which extends toward the kingdom of Mindanao. Father
Pedro Tellez zealously traveled through those shores, where he formed
several villages, erected more than sixteen churches, and established
Christian living; and he made his abode in Tungavan. Notable aid
was given to this enterprise by Don Antonio Ampi, the lord of the
river, who always promoted the Christian religion with extraordinary
constancy--although he had in Jolo a brother named Libot, a renegade
and a cruel pirate--and he gave to the college at Samboangan some
fertile and productive lands. At the cost of toils and privations,
Father Tellez reduced the barbarous Subanos to rational and Christian
customs, drawing them out of their caves and huts, and from under
the cruel tyrannical yoke of the demon--who made apparent the great
resentment that was roused in him by the loss of those his long-time
slaves; for at various times the horrible howls that he uttered were
heard at Curuan. For ministration on the coast of La Caldera and
Siocon, which was left deserted by the death of Father Juan del Campo,
the father provincial Francisco de Roa assigned Father Francisco
Combés, who gladly went to instruct the Subanos. Most earnestly
he applied himself to bringing those wild and timid creatures into
closer social relations, and in doing this he was able to forward
their instruction in the mysteries of the faith; and gradually they
became accustomed to a more rational and Christian mode of life. On
the river of Sibuco there was an Indian named Ondol; this man and
his brother, worse than Moors, were married to several wives; and
Ondol was so cruel that he slew whomsoever he chose, without further
cause than his own whim. He tried to kill Father Adolfo de Pedrosa,
greatly applauded the killing of Father Juan del Campo, and threatened
that he would kill Father Combés; but the latter pretended to take
no notice of it, and was cautious, and concealed his intentions;
and Ondol went on confidently, so that, when he least thought of
such a thing, he found himself a prisoner, and was sent to Samboangan
where he was received by the Spaniards and by the fathers with great
pleasure at seeing removed from the midst [of the mission] so great
an obstacle to the Christian faith. His brothel continued to stir up
the people, and an armed fleet was sent against him, but without any
result; for the noise [of their coming] warned him so that he could
avoid the blow, among woods, hills, miry places, and thickets. The
escort of the father [i.e., Combés] continued to make arrests, with
cunning devices, until they seized fifteen of this man's relatives;
and the father sent them to Samboangan. Love for his kindred brought
that wild man to the church, to ask mercy from the father. He was
admitted to favor, and all the past forgotten, with one condition:
that he and all his people, since they were Lutaos, must live under
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