The Philippine Islands, 1493-1803; explorations by early navigators, descriptions of the islands and their peoples, their history and records of the Catholic missions, as related in contemporaneous books and manuscripts, showing the political, economic, commericial and religious conditions of those islands from their earliest relations with European nations to the beginning of the nineteenth century; [Vol. 1, no. 33]

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Jesus to keep in place of her idols;317 and then she
went away. In the afternoon,318 the king and queen,
accompanied by numerous persons, came to the
shore. Thereupon, the captain had many trombs of
fire and large mortars discharged, by which they
were most highly delighted.39 The captain and the
king called one another brothers. That king's name
was Raia Humabon. Before that week had gone, all
the persons of that island, and some from the other
islands, were baptized. We burned one hamlet
which was located in a neighboring island, because
it refused to obey the king or us. We set up the cross
there for those people were heathen. Had they been
Moros, we would have erected a column there as a
token of greater hardness, for the Moros are much
harder to convert than the heathen.
The captain-general went ashore daily during
those days to hear mass, and told the king many
things regarding the faith.320 One day the queen
came with great pomp to hear mass. Three girls
preceded her with three of her hats in their hands.321
She was dressed in black and white with a large silk
scarf, crossed with gold stripes thrown over her
head, which covered her shoulders; and she had on
her hat. A great number of women accompanied
her, who were all naked and barefoot, except that
they had a small covering of palm-tree cloth before
their privies, and a small scarf upon the head, and
all with hair flowing free. The queen, having made
the due reverence to the altar, seated herself on a silk
embroidered cushion. Before the commencement of
the mass, the captain sprayed her and some of her
women with musk rosewater, for they delighted ex