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. 36]

62 THE PHILIPPINE ISLANDS [Vol. 36
This is the number estimated to be in this residence.
Five priests generally aid in their instruction.15
15 Montero y Vidal adds: "It is seen, then, that the Christian
population in charge of the Jesuits in Mindanao and adjacent regions was at that time 50,000 souls. The discalced Augustinians,
who had gone to aid the Jesuits in 1621 in extending their jurisdictions of Butuan and Caraga, had 20,000 more or so in charge.
As the entire population of the island was, according to Father
Colin, calculated at that time at I50,000, it follows that more
than two-fifths had embraced Christianity and were obedient to
Spanish authority."