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]

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site the Camucones enemy. The administration of
all those islands, and of that called Cuio, is in charge
of discalced Augustinian religious.
Bishopric of Cagayan or Nueva Segovia
The city where the seat of the bishopric is located
is called Nueva Segovia. It has a Spanish presidio
and its fort, whose castellan is the alcalde-mayor of
that jurisdiction. It is in charge of one secular cura.
The religious of St. Dominic have a convent in the
said city. The jurisdiction is about eighty leguas
long and forty wide. All the province of Cagayan is
in charge of religious of St. Dominic except the village and port of Viga, which is in charge of a secular
cura.
Next to that province on the side toward the archbishopric of Manila, lies the province called Ylocos.
It is very fertile and abounds in gold and cotton, and
is densely populated. It has an alcalde-mayor, and
all its administration is in charge of calced Augustinian religious.
The province called Pangasinan is next to the said
province of Ylocos. It is densely populated, fertile,
and abounds in gold. The religious of St. Dominic
have charge of it, with the exception of some small
villages on the seacoast, which are in charge of discalced Augustinian religious. All those three provinces together with the islands called Babullanes
belong to the said bishopric of Cagaian. They lie
north of Manila. There are many people yet to be
converted, some of them being rebels who have taken
to the mountains, while there are others who pay
their tributes although they are not Christians.