Philippine history : reassessed / Isidro Escare Abeto.

the specific landing spot based on the verbal estimonies of the agd native
residents Rafael Baca and Anastacia Asuncion, both over 90 years old. Their
informations which were handed down from generation to generation were
corroborated by another native elder, Silverio Cepe, who seriously doubted
the veracity of the landing date of the Brunei datus in Panay in the year 200,
as engraved in a concrete marker, a distance away frm the indicated landing
place. Cepe i lieved that the landing happened in the 14th century. This
historical fat, especially the landing spot in Malandog, confi red the reve
lations by Cayo Vicora, a very aged Negrito who was the great, great grandson
of Hari Marikudo, and by another aged Visayan, Guillenno Bisayda, native
of Malandog, who was also the great, great, grand son of Damt Duman gsol, one
of the associates of Dat Sumakwel in the Confederaion of Madyaas. he
specific landing site is now a pie e of real property owned by Riardo
Villavert of San Jose de Buenavista, capital of Antique.
ukbok River Long
and Wide
xBukk Rivser is
loy and winding 80 mesn
ters wide at itsbig steeth,
about 7 kilometers long
reaching the barangay of
of Hamttik. At high tide, it
is 8 feet deep and at low
tide 3 feet deep. Filipino
anthropologists visited
the landing site in 1972.
Viewing the Visayan Sea Tnhey had unearthed some
relics m t ithe place but
The iabhor (Middle) with Barangay tain RitaDevelos reve la tion tas made
(Iret) and a native (right) f Malandog view the wideas
Visayan sea from the end of Agodi Peninsula near the of their findings.
mouthsof Malandog andBukbokRivers. (Photo, courtesy
of Antique Kan, San Jose, Antique.)
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