That same year certain splendid feasts were celebrated in Manila for the holy martyrs of Japon who were canonized by his Holiness Pope Urban VII.  There were twenty-one of them.  Three were dogicos of the Society; the others belonged to the order of our father St. Francis.  The religious marched in glittering vestments, all at the cost of the pious and religious inhabitants of Manila.  The orders invited one another.  There was a general procession in which the altars were excellent.  As for that of our house, if it were not the best one, none of the others were ahead of it.  It is certain that the dances, comedies, and the other things which made the festival magnificent, could have been envied by the best cities of Espana, to the honor and glory of its sons; for they have so pacified this earth that even at the limits of the world may be seen so many grandeurs to the honor and glory of the Author of all.  Of this not a little redounds to the Catholic sovereigns of Espana; for by their expenses of men and money the banners of the Church have floated over the most remote and unknown parts of the world.  Our kings of Espana deserve much, no doubt, since God has made use of them for so great affairs in His service.

Governor Don Juan Nino de Tabora sent Captain Juan Bautista, who had married one of his servants, to the fort and presidio of Caragan.  He was a very energetic and courageous youth, as he had proved on all opportunities that arose—­both in that presidio, where he made many successful expeditions, and in other places where he had been sent.  He had been badly wounded in Jolo.  When he beheld himself head of that fort, he resolved to make an entrance among the Tagabaloes. [85] He assembled many men from the friendly villages; as is the custom—­although I know not with what justice they have taken to make forays on them, capturing them, carrying them away, and selling them, for those Indians where they go are not Moros, nor even have they done any harm to the Spaniards, but remaining quiet in their own lands, they eke out a miserable existence.  But this [custom] is inherited from one [generation] to another.  While about to make a foray in this manner, Captain Bautista quarreled with a chief of Caragan, the chief of all that district; and, not satisfied with treating him badly with words, the captain attacked him, threw him to the ground, and gave him many blows and kicks.  Captain Bautista was unarmed, as were also the Spaniards with him, who are very self-reliant in all things.  Then the chief returned to his own people and asked them if they were not ashamed of what had happened.  “Then,” said he, “how do you consent that the Castilians and captain treat me thus in your presence, when you could easily kill them?” As they were few and unarmed, the natives killed the captain and twelve soldiers, and Father Jacinto Cor, a Recollect father, who was going with them.  After this first misfortune, resulting from the anger of an imprudent captain, the natives went about warning