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The Philippine Islands, 1493-1898; Volume 47, 1728-1759: 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 47, 1728-1759: 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

governor not being willing to listen to anything against the sultan,
that is coming true which the fathers said to his Lordship--that
the said sultan from Manila would cause the ruin of these islands,
causing the Jolóans by piratical raids to carry away many Christian
Indians as captives, and to destroy churches and villages. This is
what they are actually doing, as is written by the fathers in Visayas,
whose letters I have seen within a few days, and the governor will
not permit that a word be uttered in order that it may not be said
(although it is well known) that the Moros are destroying the island
with the gunpowder and balls which have been sent them from Manila,
and the sultan is paying for them with the pearls and gold which he
has given to the said governor. What continually renews the grief
of all is, that not only is no remedy applied to so dire evils, but
that the governor continues to entertain the sultan in Manila as if
he were our friend or defender, while he is the greatest traitor and
enemy that this Christian church has had; and we greatly fear that
by this time the said sultan is making himself master of the post at
Samboangan. [61]

It is sufficient to have pointed this out in order that my brother may
gain knowledge of the condition in which affairs are. What concerns
the mission in Mindanao is made sufficiently clear in the letter from
Father Ygnacio Malaga, and everything that he says is the simple truth;
but, in order that this truth may not be smothered with the reports
which this governor of Manila is sending to the court at Madrid, I have
sent my brother that letter of Father Malaga, entreating him to please
show it to the father procurator-general Pedro Ygnacio Altamirano,
and to any other person whom my brother may think best, for the sake
of the credit of this province and of the entire Society--for they do
not lack many rivals, who are not willing that the ill-success of the
missions of Joló and Mindanao should be attributed to the perfidy and
malice of the Moros; but they try to charge it to the very fathers
of the Society.

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History

The Philippine Islands, 1493-1898; Volume 47, 1728-1759: 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

governor not being willing to listen to anything against the sultan,
that is coming true which the fathers said to his Lordship--that
the said sultan from Manila would cause the ruin of these islands,
causing the Jolóans by piratical raids to carry away many Christian
Indians as captives, and to destroy churches and villages. This is
what they are actually doing, as is written by the fathers in Visayas,
whose letters I have seen within a few days, and the governor will
not permit that a word be uttered in order that it may not be said
(although it is well known) that the Moros are destroying the island
with the gunpowder and balls which have been sent them from Manila,
and the sultan is paying for them with the pearls and gold which he
has given to the said governor. What continually renews the grief
of all is, that not only is no remedy applied to so dire evils, but
that the governor continues to entertain the sultan in Manila as if
he were our friend or defender, while he is the greatest traitor and
enemy that this Christian church has had; and we greatly fear that
by this time the said sultan is making himself master of the post at
Samboangan. [61]

It is sufficient to have pointed this out in order that my brother may
gain knowledge of the condition in which affairs are. What concerns
the mission in Mindanao is made sufficiently clear in the letter from
Father Ygnacio Malaga, and everything that he says is the simple truth;
but, in order that this truth may not be smothered with the reports
which this governor of Manila is sending to the court at Madrid, I have
sent my brother that letter of Father Malaga, entreating him to please
show it to the father procurator-general Pedro Ygnacio Altamirano,
and to any other person whom my brother may think best, for the sake
of the credit of this province and of the entire Society--for they do
not lack many rivals, who are not willing that the ill-success of the
missions of Joló and Mindanao should be attributed to the perfidy and
malice of the Moros; but they try to charge it to the very fathers
of the Society.

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

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