es, I do not insert here
a map of these islands, which I have drawn by hand, with the greatest
exactness, from my personal knowledge. In place thereof, I will write
a description so clear that any geographer can reduce it to a map;
and for greater clearness the above-mentioned island of Maribelez will
be the center of this description--which is divided into four parts
or voyages: to the east, southeast, south, and north, respectively.

14-28. [These paragraphs contain data for the map that Letona would
have made--the location, latitude, size, and names of islands,
with distances and direction by compass. We note a few points of
interest which contain new information. In Mindoro is "El Baradero,
a celebrated bay and a very safe harbor." With the island of Burias
"ends the archbishopric of Manila; the next lands [i.e., Banton]
belong to the bishopric of Zebu." In Catanduanes reside a beneficed
curate and a corregidor. "The interior of Mindanao is still unsubdued;
its natives are heathen in the eastern part, and Mahometan pirates
in the west. They have been reduced to his Majesty's obedience and
to the Church, and among them are four garrisons of Spaniards--one
in the east, at Tandag; two in the north, at Bacilan and Malanao;
and another in the west, at Samboanga. In this island some cinnamon
is collected." "Sanguil, or Calonga, is a small island under a petty
king--who is a Catholic Christian--named Don Juan Buntuan. At his
request, I sent thither in the year 1651 with my credentials and
instructions father Fray Joseph de Truxillo, a deserving son of our
father St. Francis in this convent of La Puebla; ... who, with his
excellent example, preaching, and instruction--aided by his companion
father Fray Mateo Rodriguez, a man of his own spirit--established
and renewed the faith, built a church, and converted and baptized
many infidels, both children and adults." "Macazar is an island
yet to be conquered; its people are Mahometans and heathen, and
are very numerous. It is 180 leguas in circuit; in its eastern part
it has a powerful Mahometan king, who has at his capital factories
from Europa and Assia; and he has the utmost devotion and reverence
for the king our sovereign." The four islands of Bolinao form the
boundary of the archbishopric of Manila; from these extends the
bishopric of Cagayan. The following islands are depopulated (some
of them being mentioned in earlier accounts as having inhabitants):
Ticao, San Bernardi