r former statements that they are not
a party to the suit, the matter is brought to court, and the missions
of the Zambals turned over to the Recollects by special sentence.

Through nearly all of the Spanish regime in the Philippines, those
islands, especially and most the Visayan, suffered greatly from the
frequent and cruel raids of the Moro pirates from Mindanao and other
islands south of it. Some account of these is a necessary part of this
work; but our limits of space will not allow us to reproduce verbose
and detailed relations like that of Combes (in his Hist. de Mindanao),
especially as this and some others of similar tenor cover but a short
period of time. In an appendix to this volume we present a brief
summary of this subject, down to the end of the seventeenth century;
the first part is an outline merely, drawn from our previous volumes,
giving full citations therefrom, which show the relations existing
between the Spaniards and the Mahometan Malays from 1565 to 1640. The
second part covers the same subject for the rest of the century; it
is composed of the accounts given by Murillo Velarde, Diaz, and other
historians, arranged in chronological order--sometimes synopsized,
sometimes translated in full, according to the prolixity or the
relative importance of each. From the beginning were evident various
elements of hostility--racial, religious, and commercial--between the
Spaniards and the Moros, which were soon aggravated by the Spanish
desire for conquest and the Moro greed for plunder and bloodshed. The
unfortunate natives of the northern islands who had been subjugated
by the Spaniards were unable to defend themselves from their enemies,
and the Spanish power was often inadequate to protect them or to punish
the invaders. The pirates were intimidated and curbed for a long time
by Corcuera's brilliant campaigns in Mindanao and Jolo (1637-38); and
other punitive expeditions had a like though often temporary effect
in later years. In the latter part of the century peace prevailed
between these enemies for a long time, probably because no one of
the Moro chiefs had the ability and force of the noted Corralat.

In 1639 Almonte subdues the fierce Guimbanos, a mountain people in
Sulu. Later, they and the Joloans rebel, and in 1643-44 Agustin
de Cepeda again chastises them, defeating the natives in several
battles and ravaging their country. One of these expeditions is
related in detail by a Jesuit in Jolo, w