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. 24]

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THE PHILIPPINE ISLANDS

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the enemy, who were entrenched in their fields. The
latter were insolent, and reinforced with allies and
supporters. During the battle, the rain was so heavy
that they could not use the arquebuses, so that the
enemy were beginning to prevail. Thereupon, the
shields of the Sugbu Indians were brought into service, and the latter aided excellently, by guarding
with them the powder-flasks and powder-pans of the
arquebuses, so that they were fired with heavy loss
[to the enemy]. When the shower of rain came, the
enemy's babaylan encouraged them by saying that
there they could see how their divatas had told them
true; for what could be of greater use to them at
that time than the rain, so that the arms of the Castilians would be useless. Consequently, they became
like mad dogs; and they preferred death to enduring
the conditions of the conqueror. But so many fell
that death had to fulfil its duty, namely, to inspire
them with fear. They wounded Don Juan with a
stone, but not very dangerously, as his morion received the blow. Although he fell, he arose cured,
and with renewed courage, by calling on the, Holy
Child, who gave the Spaniards the victory, and,
with it, the islands for a second time. Truly, had
so good an outcome not befallen the Spaniards in
Bohol, there would not have been a single one of the
Pintados - and these form the bulk of the islands -
which would not have risen against them. After this
victory, those who had desired to raise the yoke
placed their necks once more under it. However, it
was not sufficient to deter the natives of Leyte from
likewise trying their fortune, which resulted as ill
to them as to the natives of Bohol. Then the islands
became quiet, and the Indians more humble. How