[41] See La Concepcion’s account of the work of the Jesuits in Bohol (Hist. de Philipinas, iii, pp. 356-362).  Gabriel Sanchez and Juan de Torres were the first of their missionaries there.  The Boholans did not, like the other natives of those islands, practice polygamy; thus their conversion was greatly facilitated.  The fathers gathered many of the natives into a reduction; and they healed many sick persons with holy water.  Among their converts was Catunao, a chief one hundred and twenty years old, who had guided Legazpi to Cebu.

[42] Apparently the same as the present Tubigon, a considerable town on the western coast of Bohol.

[43] Dulag is a town on the eastern coast of Leyte; and Alangalang (named in the last section of this letter) is in the northern part of that island, some twenty miles up the Cabayong River.

[44] “Go ye, swift angels, to a people wrenched up and torn, a fearful people, after whom is none other.”

[45] In MS., treze (thirteen)—­apparently an error in transcription (probably arising from almost illegible writing in the original), since Vaez, in the document preceding this, makes the number of Jesuit priests in the islands to be thirty (treinta).

[46] La Concepcion relates (Hist. de Philipinas, iii, pp. 380-382) the labors accomplished in less than a year by Garcia as visitor.  Collecting over one thousand pesos of contributions, he restored the Jesuit church at Manila, which had been ruined by earthquakes; and appointed Pedro Chirino as rector of the college.  He reorganized the missions of the Society, and their administration, and presented a more liberal interpretation of the rule and constitution of the order.  He visited the various missions; and the missionaries who had been stationed in different villages were gathered by Garcia into a few central residences, from which they made journeys to carry on their labors.  La Concepcion writes in a critical tone, regarding Garcia as an innovator, and as doing more harm than good by some of his too radical measures.  Sommervogel does not mention Diego Garcia.

[47] For interesting accounts, descriptive and historical, of early ships, see article by Admiral George H. Preble on “Ships of the Sixteenth Century,” and similar papers on those of the next three centuries, in The United Service, November, 1883-June, 1884.  See also Edward Shippen’s account of galleys and the life of the galley-slaves ("Galleys of the Sixteenth Century"), in the same periodical, September, 1884.  On galleons, cf. note in The Spanish War, 1585-87 (published by Navy Records Society; London, 1898), pp. 337-341.

[48] The document here referred to (dated January 15-June 12, 1601), and another recording a similar investigation made by Morga (July 6-9, 1602), are in the Sevilla archives, bearing the same pressmark as the fiscal’s letter in our text.  Both are too long and unimportant to be here presented.