Let us leave those islands for a moment and return to Mindanao, where Ours were fervently attending to their ministry.  After having put Christianity on the best footing possible along the shores of Butuan, they went forty leguas farther on by sea, to look for another river called Cagaiang, as they had been told that its inhabitants were a people more docile than the other inhabitants, in order to enlighten them with the light of the gospel.  The lord of that land was an Indian named Salangsang.  He lived on a steep and inaccessible rock, which is a peninsula called Himologan.  It had no other approaches or mode of ascent than certain ladders made of rattans [bexucos], which resemble strong osiers.  When those were removed it was fortified and protected from the invasions of enemies.  The customs of those people are like those related of the inhabitants of Caraghas.  The path opened for that undertaking was that Dona Magdalena Bacuya, a Christian Indian woman (the grandmother of the above mentioned Indian, Salangsang), being moved by zeal for the honor of God, and compassion for the blindness of those people, went to see her grandson.  Although with difficulty, she succeeded in gaining admittance for our ministers, who were at that time staying at the island of Camigui without being able to accomplish that which they wished.  Finally, fathers Fray Juan de San Nicolas and Fray Francisco de la Madre de Dios arrived there [at Himologan], and found the chief in the presence of five hundred Indians who lived in that place.  That site, perched on its summit, was a very agreeable residence capacious enough for that people to live in a house resembling a cloister, so large that they lived in it with all their families.  These had communication on the inside, while it was strongly enclosed on the outside.  In the middle of it was the divatahan or temple dedicated to the devil.  It was a little house and dirty, as was he who was worshiped there.  The prince received the ministers with some show of affection, for he gave them a little buffet on the cheek, as a sign that he received them as friends.

Those people wondered at seeing those ministers in their lands, and joked about them, taking them for madmen, since they entered without weapons or other defense, to seek their death.  But as those fathers had God on their side, whose cause they were serving, His sovereign Majesty ordained that the chief, showing them kindness, should give them a small corner in his house, so that they might live securely, although very uncomfortably.  For no one gave them anything, and, in order to live, they had to go fishing and to carry wood and water on their backs.  They suffered considerably from that, but in joy and gladness, for they were serving the Lord, to whom they were attempting to offer those barbarous people by means of the preaching of the faith.