and killing all the Spaniards whom they found on their coasts, and tried to take the fort by strategy.  But already the matter was known, and on that account they did not take the fort, which was the only means of recovering that post.  They killed four more religious, among whom was father Fray Juan de Santo Tomas, prior in Tangda, who was near the same fort.  He was a holy man, as he showed at his death; for, seeing them resolved to kill him, he asked permission to commend himself to God.  He knelt down, and while he was commending his soul to God, they thrust him through with a lance.  This religious was very learned and devout, and took especial care of his soul.  Therefore it is believed that by that title of martyr our Lord chose to take him to His glory and crown him there.  They wounded brother Fray Francisco, a layman, severely, as well as the father reader, Fray Lorenzo; but they did not die, and were afterward ransomed.  The other religious were very devoted to God.  How fortunate they, since they died so happily and in so heroic a quest; for those idolators killed them for hatred of their teachings.  As much help was taken there as possible from Sugbu.  The chief commander in this was Captain Chaves, encomendero of Caragan, who was living in Sugbu.  He performed good services, repairing as much as possible the evil and harm that had been begun.  Afterward, the commander-in-chief, Martin Larios, went with more soldiers to punish those Indians.

It was reported as certain that those Indians, desirous of throwing off the yoke from themselves, revolted because of the result in Solog, aroused by what they saw in Jolo, among a people less resolute than themselves, as well as by the lack of bravery that they had witnessed in the Spaniards.  The natives gathered, and held assemblies and tried to ally themselves with the Joloans, Mindanaos, and all the other neighboring natives that could help them.  Things were not in the condition that they wished; so they were gathering, and biding their time.  The above opportunity was presented, and they hurled themselves to their own greater loss, since they began what they could not finish.  It was permitted by God, so that the many souls whom the fathers have baptized and hope to baptize there may not apostatize; for thereabout are multitudes of heathen Indians, among whom the worship of Mahomet has not yet entered, and with the care of the fathers the harvest, without doubt, will be very plentiful.

The Recollect fathers returned to visit, or rather, to rebuild their house burned in Sugbu.  They built it better, and roofed it with tile, whereby it will be safer than a roofing of nipa, which is so exposed to fire and flames.