ion for the execution of his wicked intent, and found
it in a journey which the father made to Baubuen to visit a communal
house which he was building for strangers, and in order to confess
father Fray Juan de Rois, [76] who was the minister there. During the
absence of the father, Calignao descended the mountain, visited his
relatives, and was informed that the minister would return in three
days. He left his relatives, and in company with a faithless Negrito
went to await the father at the bank of a large river, by which it
was necessary to pass. When Father Perez reached that place, Calignao
discharged an arrow, which passed before the father's breast without
doing him any harm and lodged in a neighboring tree. When the father
quite naturally turned his head to see who was firing at him, the
Negrito Quibacat discharged his arrow, which, entering the father's
body three fingers below the left breast, came out more than four
fingers at the right side of his back. It was a twisted arrow, and
when father Fray Domingo pulled on it, the wound became worse. With
the most intense pain that he suffered, he broke out into "Jesus,
be with me! Let them commend me to God, for I am dying."

3. He spurred on his horse, which ran until the father perceived that
sight was failing him. Then he alighted, stretched himself at the
foot of an agoso tree, [77] and, amid the outpouring of his blood,
begged pardon from God for his sins. An Indian who accompanied him
came up to him, and found him unconscious from great loss of blood. The
father recovered consciousness, but for so brief a time that he could
not tell the Indian what to do. He fainted once more, so completely
that the Indian thought that he was yielding up his life. He again
recovered consciousness, and sent the servant to Balacbac in order
to get people to carry him thence. The Indian went to carry out that
instruction. Meanwhile a man and three women arrived, and stayed
with the father until the arrival of the men from the village who
were very slow. For the Indian who had been sent could find no one
who cared to take that charitable office upon himself, either the
ministers of justice, the fiscals, or the sacristans. He was able
to get three serving-lads in the convent, who made a hammock from
a blanket, and carried the wounded religious in it. The latter,
charging his messenger to go to Baubuen to advise Father Rois of
his mishap, set out on his way to his village, where he