will be described later.  The island of Cubu produces a small quantity of rice, borona, and millet and little or no cotton; for the cloth which the natives use for their garments is made from a kind of banana.  From this they make a sort of cloth resembling colored calico, which the natives call medrinaque.  In these islands great value is set upon the land which can produce rice and cotton, because cotton and cloth find a good market in Nueva Espana.  The condition of the people will be described when I shall speak of all the Pintados in general, for they all are very similar.  All are provided with fowls, swine, a few goats, beans, and a kind of root resembling the potatoes of Sancto Domingo, called by the natives camotes.  After rice, fish is the main article of maintenance in this and other islands, for it abounds in all of them, and is of excellent quality in this island of Cubu.  Although deer have been found in all the islands discovered hereabout, there are none here; and if any should be brought hither from elsewhere they would immediately die.

Island of Matan.  To the south of the settlement of Cubu, about two arquebus-shots from it, lies the island of Matan where Magallanes was killed; it forms the port of Cubu.  The island is about four leagues in circumference, and half a league wide; it has a population of about three hundred Indians, scattered through four or five small villages, all of which are under the jurisdiction of the town of Cubu.

Island of Vohol.  On the other side of the island of Matan, and farther south, about eight leagues from the settlement of Cubu, lies the island of Vohol, which is an encomienda with two thousand Indians.  The natives of this island are closely related to the people of Cebu and are almost one and the same people.  Those inhabiting the coast regions are mainly fishermen.  They are excellent oarsmen; and, before the arrival of the Spaniards, they were accustomed to cruise about in their vessels on marauding expeditions.  They are also traders.  There was once a large town in this island [Bohol], which, shortly before the Spaniards came hither, was plundered by the people of Maluco, and the majority of its inhabitants were dispersed throughout the other islands, where they now dwell.  The settlements inland among the mountains are small and poor, and are not yet wholly under subjection.  In this island, as well as in the many nearby uninhabited islets—­these latter abounding also in fish—­there is great abundance of game, both deer and boars.  The island is about forty leagues in circumference, and eight or ten leagues wide.