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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not last long, for necessity forced that family to take
refuge with the insurgents, thus leaving the Spaniards destitute of all human consolation. They,
seeing themselves wounded and without food, made
a small boat of bamboo, dangerous at any time, and
embarked in it in order to go to Butuan by way of
the river, after they had dismantled the fort and
spiked the artillery. In order that the so evident
risk of that voyage might be more increased, their
opponents pursued them with swift caracoas, from
which firing many arrows they multiplied the
wounds of the soldiers. The Spaniards, seeing that
they could not defend themselves, entered the village
of Hoot where the people had not yet risen. There
they met an Indian called Palan, who was going to
Linao for his daughter, so that she might not be lost
amid the confusion of that so barbarous race. He
took compassion on those afflicted soldiers, and,
availing himself of fifteen Indians who were with
him, accommodated them in his bark and took
them to our convent of Butuan. They arrived there
twenty days after the insurrection at Linao, so used
up and crippled that they were already in the last
extremity.
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Relation of the punishment of the rebels and their
restoration to their villages
264. As soon as father Fray Miguel de Santo
Thomas, prior of our convent of Butuan, learned
what was passing in Linao, he sent a messenger to
Tandag and to the royal Audiencia of Manila; for
promptness is generally the most efficacious means
in such cases. Afterward the afflicted Spaniards