Caviscail

13.  That of Caviscail, in the Calamianes Islands, was abandoned because of the murder committed on one of our religious, an able minister of that village, by the Indians.

Calagdan

14.  Father Fray Felipe de la Madre de Dios, provincial of Castilla, and chronicler, mentions another—­in the Noticias Historiales, that he left in manuscript—­at Calagdan.  He assigns to it seven hundred families that were converted to the faith.

Binalgavan

15.  That of Binalgavan, in the island of Negros, with one thousand five hundred families.  That convent was left in the hands of the fathers of the Society of Jesus, for reasons that existed for such action.  We cannot avoid mentioning some matters that happened there when it was in charge of Ours.

A certain Indian chief had a son two years old, who was very sick.  He made the usual sacrifices to the devil for his health.  As he did not get what he was after, he begged father Fray Jacinto de San Fulgencio for a little water passed through the chalice.  The father gave it to the sick child, and the latter was instantly cured.  With that occasion, it was the will of the divine mercy that the child, his parents, and their household should be baptized and leave their darkness.

On another occasion they brought an Indian from a mountain with a leg already rotting; and as he was being treated in the house of the alcalde-mayor, at an unseasonable hour of the night he called loudly for baptism.  The father went to him, and, upon seeing him, the sick man said:  “Baptize me, Father, since God has brought me into the power of the Christians for that reason.”  The religious minister baptized him immediately, and scarcely had he finished administering the sacrament to him when the Indian, invoking the most sweet name of Jesus, expired.

Finally a converted Indian woman, having been convicted of a grave sin, in order to deny it cursed, saying:  “May a crocodile eat me before I reach my house, if what I said was untrue.”  God punished her immediately, for while near her native place, called Passi, in the island of Panai, a crocodile attacked her, and seizing her in its mouth, dragged her into the river, and swallowed her.  At that time, father Fray Juan de San Joseph was prior of that convent.

Tagho

16.  The convent of Tagho, so called from a river that bathes it, has in charge the care of nine hundred families of Christians.

Dinai

17.  In Calamianes, the convent of Dinai, with seven hundred families, was removed to Linacapan in order to avoid the continual raids of the pirates.

Damaran

18.  The convent of Damaran had charge of four hundred baptized persons.

Father Fray Jacinto de San Fulgencio, commissary and procurator of that province of San Nicolas of Filipinas, while at this court of Madrid gave a relation of other houses, in addition to those enumerated, which are as follows: