o other opportunity than to flee to the mountain afoot
and naked as he was in his bed, so that one can imagine what he
suffered. In the year 34 they destroyed the villages of Malampayan,
Dumaran, and Linacapan. Father Fray Domingo de San Agustin, a native
of Aldeguela near Teruel, while escaping to the mountain remained for
five days in a cellar with the water up to his waist without eating
anything else than herbs. As a consequence of that and other hardships
that he suffered on various occasions, various illnesses came upon
him which finally ended his life, he refusing to turn his back on the
evangelical enterprises, although he could have done so. Father Fray
Juan de la Virgen de Moncayo (a native of Anon in Aragon) retiring
first to the redoubt of Taytay and then to the mountains, as he had
done at other times, became so ill that he surrendered his soul,
though always fighting, in the island of Mindoro. The Moros went to
that island also in the above-mentioned year and attacked several
villages, and the religious remained in the mountains for a long time;
this caused father Fray Joseph de San Agustin (a son of Azaret, in the
said kingdom of Aragon) to contract his last illness, and he retired
to Manila, where he ended the miseries of this life in order to pass
to life eternal. In the year 35 they became masters of the villages of
Paragua, whose Christian faith is little less than lost. In the year
36 they again besieged the presidio of Taytay; and although it was
possible to defend it at the cost of miracles, in one of the assaults
a bullet took away the life of father Fray Antonio de Santa Ana, a
native of Gandia in the kingdom of Valencia. In the years 37 and 38
the Moros, already masters of the sea, filled Calamianes and Mindoro
with horror. In the year 39 they had so closed the passage from the
said islands to Manila that for more than six months nothing could be
heard from the religious living in those fields of Christendom. In the
year 40 they went to the coast of Mindoro opposite Luzon, where they
inhumanly killed father Fray Leon de San Joseph (a son of Peraleda in
Castilla) and captured another religious who was going as missionary to
Mindanao; and it was a miracle that they did not capture all those who
were returning from the chapter-meeting. In that same period, although
I do not know definitely the year, they also landed at Hingoog, a
village of the province of Caragha; in the island of Camiguin, which
b