Father Alonso de Humanes and Father Juan del Campo were the first to instruct the dwellers in and about Dulac.  Father Alonso de Humanes was sent to Sebu, by Father Antonio Sedeno, as superior of our Society in the island of Leite; and arriving at Carigara (which is the first of the missions), he left there as superior his companion, Father Mateo Sanchez, and taking with him Father Juan del Campo, who had been superior in Carigara, proceeded with him to Dulac.  Father Alonso de Humanes held Father Juan del Campo in the highest estimation as a spiritual and eloquent man, fervent, learned, and talented, and very sagacious in practical affairs; for these reasons he laid hold of him for greater help and companionship.  He remained with him, however, only for a short time; for they soon sent him to Mindanao, as we shall later see.  In the time that they spent together, they erected the first church in Dulac; established a school for children, many of whom they baptized; and formed a long list of catechumens, whom they prepared and baptized, with great solemnity and rejoicing, to the increase of reverence for this holy sacrament.  Besides this, Father Juan del Campo, traveling throughout that district, gained the good-will of all those villages and marvelously influenced them to receive our holy faith.  They went forth from his hands such model Christians that those who before baptism were fierce, rude, and intractable, you would see today, after baptism, tractable, gentle, pliant, and loving; they are now wholly freed from error, and feel a horror of their idols and former vices, and extreme love and affection for Jesus Christ our Lord, and for His mysteries.  Children so small that they could hardly yet speak, gave such a good account of the Christian doctrine that they seemed to have been born instructed.  Those who two days before had not known or heard of Him now repeated with pleasure and gentleness, “May Jesus Christ be praised;” and, indeed, it all seemed to be His work, and wrought through His instrumentality.

What took place in Carigara in those early days.  Chapter XXVI.

As we have already said, the post at Carigara was the first where the Society began the mission villages of this province; and it was there that we said the first mass, and celebrated the first feast with great solemnity in honor of the holy cross.  There, too, occurred the first baptism, when with my own hands (although unworthy); as a beginning to this new Christian community, I baptized a goodly number of children already capable of reason.  At all the services of this feast there was a great concourse from the whole district who solemnized it, beginning the night before, with mirth, rejoicing, and games.  Afterward, Father Juan del Campo and Father Cosme de Flores began to instruct some of the older persons in the Christian faith.  At that time, and through that exercise, those two fathers learned the language of the natives in a very short time—­especially Father Cosme,