r islands. The administration of
all the islands called Mindanao, Jolo, and the others, both Spaniards
and natives, is in charge of religious of the Society of Jesus.

From the cape of San Augustin northeastward in that island
is the jurisdiction called Caraga and Buttuan, which has its
own alcalde-mayor. Its administration is in charge of discalced
Augustinian fathers.

Along the coast toward the vendaval [i.e., southwest], on that same
island is the jurisdiction of Yligan, the principal part of which
lies on a lake of the same name. It is in charge of fathers of the
Society of Jesus.

The district called Dappitan in that same island is in charge of
fathers of the Society of Jesus.

Terrenate

The islands called Terrenate or the Clove Islands are located for
the most part under the equinoctial line toward the east; and are
three hundred leguas distant from Malaca in India, and slightly less
from Manila, toward the southeast. The islands are five in number,
extend north and south, and are quite near one another. The largest,
from which the others take their name, is that of Terrenate. [25] Two
leguas from it is that of Tidore, and then comes Mutiel. The fourth
is called Maquien and the fifth Bachan. All of them lie opposite
the land called Battachina. Those islands of Terrenate have various
Spanish presidios, the principal one of which is in the same island
of Terrenate where the governor lives; he is the governor of all the
other presidios. The Dutch have a settlement in that island with a good
fort, all for the sake of the profit [that they obtain from the] cloves
and nutmeg. The number of Christians there is small, although there
were many in the time of the glorious apostle of Yndia, St. Francis
Xavier. It has always been administered by religious of the Society
of Jesus, as well as the natives of the island of Siau, who are the
most affectioned to our holy faith. The Spaniards of Terrenate are in
charge of a secular cura belonging to the jurisdiction of the bishopric
of Cochin in Oriental Yndia; for the administration of those islands
has always been in charge of that bishopric and province of Cochin,
although the ministers of the Society of Jesus have been appointed
since the time of the revolt of Portugal by the superior of the said
Society in the province of Philipinas. The stipends of the cura and
of the other evangelical workers are paid from the royal treasury of
Manila, as are also the salaries