Provinces of Camarines and Vicor.  Farther along the coast near the Pasacao River begin the provinces of Vicor and Camarines, which, as we have said above, are situated on the east side as you enter the Philipinas islands.  Disembarking at the Pasacao River, which is seventy leagues from the city of Manilla by sea, and journeying three leagues by land, one comes to the Vicor River flowing north; its source is in the opposite coasts of the island. [11]

Alcalde-mayor of Camarines.  Here lies the town of Caceres, the seat of an alcalde-mayor who receives a salary of three hundred pesos.  There are also two alcaldes-in-ordinary, and six regidors, whom the governor appoints for as long a period as he chooses.  This town of Caceres is situated in the middle of the entire province, on the banks of the river Vicor.  This river district is allotted to eight encomenderos, seven of whom have in charge about seven hundred Indians each, and the other about two thousand.  Along the same river, his Majesty possesses the villages of Minalagua and Nagua, with two thousand Indians.  Following this river, one comes to a lake called the lake of Libon, which is but scantily populated.  The district round about is one encomienda, with one thousand five hundred Indians living in the village of Libon and its environs.  This lake of Libon, lying in a mountainous region, has many creeks, by which one can easily go to Yguas, Albay, Camarines, Bicagua, and other places.  The town of Caceres has in all twenty-four encomenderos.  Fourteen of them, including the seven above mentioned, have seven hundred Indians each; one has two thousand; another, that of lake Libon, has one thousand five hundred; and the rest have about three hundred Indians each.  The inhabitants of the Vicor River district pay their tribute in gold and rice, for they possess these articles in great abundance—­for in this province are the excellent mines of Paracale, sixteen leagues from the town; they work also the mines of Catanduanes, thirty leagues from the town.  The town has no dependencies, nor does it hold any jurisdiction over other communities.  The whole district is under the jurisdiction of the alcalde-mayor of the province of Laguna.  This province has a population of about one thousand five hundred, and is allotted to three encomenderos.

Albay and Baquian are inhabited by about eight hundred Indians, who are allotted to two encomenderos.  Camarines, with about five hundred men, is under one encomendero.

Libon is under one encomendero, and has one thousand five hundred men.

The province of Paracale and its coast, as far as Mahuban, is inhabited by about two thousand men, and is allotted to three encomenderos.  The king owns a share of this province.

The district around the bay of Yvalon has a population of about one thousand five hundred, being divided between two encomenderos.