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]

1690-169I] NATIVES OF SOUTHERN ISLANDS

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Don Gonqalo Maglenti, the husband of Dofia Maria
Uray, whom we mentioned above, and the father of
Don Pedro Cabelin. The latter is still living, and
is nowise inferior in his deeds and fidelity to his
forbears, as he was reared from childhood with so
good merits of nobility and Christian warfare- accompanying his father from the age of seven years,
on all occasions of danger; thus he came to despise
danger so thoroughly that at the age of thirty (his
present age) the enemies of God and of our king
whom he has killed in hand-to-hand combats, in
various frays, surpass two hundred. Don Gonqalo,
then, the father of so illustrious a son, left him
enough examples to emulate his valor, for in accordance with his surname (which means "he who hurls
down thunderbolts"), his valor hurled them in a
constant shower. ike opposed the might of the
Mindanaos at the time of their greatest arrogance,
when they threatened all these islands with their
arms. He always went in pursuit of their fleets and
of those of the Malanaos which were sent by way of
the bay of Pangil4" to aid the Mindanaos, for he
was an ally for the defeat of their plans. He subdued from the bay of Pangil to the village of
Sidabay, ten leguas from Samboangan, all of the
villages scattered through sixty leguas along the
coast (formerly many more and superior in number). His care watched perpetually over the
islands, and of his own accord he despatched advices
to Cebu and Oton at the first rumor of hostile fleets,
by means of which the evil designs of the enemies
45 The bay of Panguil or Pangil takes its name from a fruit,
pangi (Hidnocarpus polyandra - B.), which is carried down to
the coast by the rivers. (Pastells and Retana's Combes, col. 759.)