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. 40]

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our holy faith, giving renown equally to his own
banners and to those of our king and sovereign, and
receiving the name Don Pedro Manuel Manooccontinued the greatness of his deeds. For besides the
services rendered in Manila and the province of
Camarines, he sustained war against Mindanao and
Jolo, and attacked them with his fleets in their very
houses. On one occasion, when among others he went
to attack Jolo, he met the king himself, who was also
going out with his fleet of twelve joangas. Manooc
defeated him and captured his flagship, and, at the
cost of many killed, the king escaped as a fugitive,
by hastening to the land. He made war on the
Caragas, who were the terror of the islands at that
time. He subdued the village of Bayug of the Malanao43 nation, who were subject to the Mindanaos,
without our arms having any other protection amid
so many enemies than that of his valor which made
easy so many undertakings. That prince was the
father of Dofia Maria Uray, who is today living as an
example and ornament of these nations because of the
perfection of her virtues - which she prefers to a better fortune, for she has spurned marriage with the
kings of Jolo in order that she might not subject her
faith to the outrages of barbarous and faithless
princes. Don Pedro Manuel Manooc left orders
that he was to be buried in the city of Cebu, as he
had ordered in his will that his bones be taken to
that cathedral. His children carried out his orders,
thereby showing both their affection to us and their
devotion to him.
43 The term "Malanao" is derived from "ma," "people of"
and "lanao," "lake," and has long been used to distinguish the
Moros living on the watershed of Lake Lanao. See Census of
the Philippines, i, p. 473.