2.  Their endurance and suffering made the Bolinaos more tractable; they were persuaded that their preaching was true, and that their instruction was important for them.  They began to listen to it without aversion, although with curiosity.  The efficacy of the word of God penetrated strongly into their hearts.  Then they conceived a horror of their barbarous customs.  Thereupon, and because of the continual instruction, they resolved to abandon paganism, and to surrender their necks to the gospel yoke.  One thousand six hundred, having been catechised satisfactorily, were baptized.  They built a suitable church and a dwelling-house for the father ministers, and the village of Bolinao was established in very orderly ways, in matters relating to their common life and to civilization.  They have continued happily in their vocation, and I think that it is one of the most solid Christian communities in the islands.  They are very devout, and their thoughts are without any superstition, while they are most inclined to devotion.  Thence the fathers extended their zeal to the near-by and dependent communities; all these were most happily subjected.  That was largely induced by the religious themselves cutting down a reserved bamboo plantation, and thus removing their foolish fears that he who dared to cut a single bamboo from it would die—­but which did not happen to them, as the Indians had imagined.  By that means they were undeceived in their previous superstitions.

3.  The fathers also extended their reductions and conversions to the south of Masinloc.  They formed the scattered peoples, and the rural settlers of Tuguy and Paynayan into villages.  Inasmuch as the Pagans and Negritos of the immediate forests disturbed those new establishments greatly by making furtive raids on them and killing several people, seizing those who were heedless at night, the superior government determined to establish a small fort in Paynayen, with moderate-sized artillery, and a garrison of Spanish and Pampanga infantry which would maintain in loyalty those newly catechised and reduced, and would shelter them from barbarous hostilities.  The expenses for it were to be paid, in order to make raids in the forests, and to intimidate with their arms those people of so fierce customs.  The only ones still to be conquered on that long coast were the scattered people of Sigayan, about eight leguas north of Masinloc.  Father Fray Alonso de San Augustin, a son of this city of Manila, took charge of that undertaking at the order of his vicar-provincial.  His diligence was efficacious and most lively.  He reduced many of those infidels to the true faith; founded a town with them, which he, with good supervision, established in a commodious site; and established a church and house.  He managed and perfected the work with great vigilance and the consolation of his soul.  One day when the people were assembled, he preached a fervent sermon, censuring the resistance of some obstinate infidels.  Some of them were