tle or not at all content, were furious with
the Dominican ministers in the reductions; they were groaning
under the yoke of a life more regulated than their inclinations
permitted. This made them think of insurrections and uprisings. The
presidio of Painaven, well reenforced, restrained them; and the
raids of the commandant, with detachments of men, into the mountains,
intimidated them in their plans. They thought that the government of
the Recollect fathers was milder, and hence they sighed for it. Those
fathers tolerated their barbarous customs among a people so ferocious,
and succeeded by their patience in softening and reducing them. Not
so with the Dominican fathers, who learned the Zambals' tenacity at
their own cost. In the village of Balacbac was an Indian chief named
Dalinen; although he lived in that village, he kept his valuables in
the mountains under charge of a nephew. Another Indian, a Cimarron,
named Calignao, killed the latter treacherously. In order to avenge
that murder, Dalinen retired with many of his followers to the dense
woods. Father Fray Domingo Perez, [75] who was the minister of that
mission, tried to prevent that flight, but was quite unable to remedy
it; for seventeen families fled with Dalinen. The commandant of the
fort attacked them with his men and burned the rancheria of Aglao,
the next village to Balacbac, to which the murderer and the injured
man belonged.

2. Calignao had an extensive and strong kindred. Because they did not
flee with him, father Fray Domingo endeavored to win them over. He
asked for an adjutant's staff from the commandant of the fort, and
dignified Calignao with it. Then in order to restrain the other side,
it was published that the murder of the nephew [of Dalinen] was by
the command of the government, which had ordered that all who would
not reduce themselves to village life should be killed. That method,
however, was insufficient to quiet them, but, on the contrary,
roused the factions to a higher pitch. To please the commandant and
to give stronger force to his faction, Calignao promised to assault
Dalinen. He went into the mountain to put that promise into execution,
and after a short time, Dalinen was killed by a Negrito. His relatives
were persuaded that the father had had a hand in that murder, and
determined to pay him back. The same Calignao offered to do the deed,
for this is what it means to benefit apostatized evil-doers. He sought
an opportune occas