6.  The convent of Calamianes, or, as it is called, Taitai, where there is a presidio of Spaniards, and where one thousand six hundred souls are directed.  That convent has another confraternity of our Lady, the Virgin.

Bislin or Bislig

7.  The convent of Bislin or Bislig governs two thousand families.  There died most happily father Fray Juan de San Augustin, a son of the province of Castilla.  He was a grand minister of the gospel, and knew the Bisayan tongue very well.  He lived apostolically, and gave a fine example with his virtues, which made him very lovable to the Indians themselves, as was seen in the rising of the coast of Caragha, from which it was necessary to withdraw him and keep him from perils to the life that he would have lost through the fury of the enemies.  His abstinence was remarkable, for, although the toil of his ministry was so vast, as he went continually through rugged places, forests, rivers, and seas, he ate nothing but herbs, and sometimes small fish, when he was especially fatigued.  He was very humble and poor, bearing himself with the Indians as if he were the meanest of them.  By these and other virtues he gathered great fruit in this life, which will doubtless have gained him eternal rest.

Baldad, Dignes,and Iaquet

8, 9, and 10.  Our most reverend father, Fray Pedro de Santiago, preacher of Felipe Fourth, examiner of writings for the supreme council of the Inquisition, vicar-general of our congregation, chronicler of the kingdom of Aragon, bishop of Solsona, and afterward of Lerida, referred many times to the convents of Baldad, Dignes, and Iaquet, in a relation that he published on the going of our religious to the Indias.  However, father Fray Andres del Santo Espiritu, provincial of Filipinas, in another manuscript relation, calls one of them Iguaquet, which is thought to be that mentioned as Iaquet.  In that convent there are eight hundred Christian families.  It was founded on a river in the northern part of this coast of Caragha by father Fray Juan de San Nicolas, a native of the Algarbes in Portugal, who took the habit in Manila.  He was a grand minister and knew the language of the Caraghas [59] perfectly.  He preached with great spirit, and succeeded in making many miraculous conversions, among both the heathen and the Christian sinners, who left his sermons so contrite, that they anxiously went to seek the salvation of their souls in the sacrament of penance.

11.  Another convent is also mentioned as being in certain islets not far from Iguaquet, in which another eight hundred families of Christians were cared for.

Laylaia

12.  The convent of Laylaia (which sounds the same as [the name of] the river above), is forty leguas distant from Butuan.  There was a presidio of Spaniards there, which from the indications seems to be that of Linao.  It has in charge one thousand six hundred souls.