to their country and
learn the difference between them and the Joloans. Almonte therefore
sent (July, 1639) troops, under Luis de Guzman and Agustin de Cepeda,
to subdue these proud mountaineers; and after a fierce battle the
Guimbanos retreated, leaving four hundred dead on the field, and three
hundred captives in the hands of the Spaniards--of whom eight died,
including Guzman, besides twenty Indian auxiliaries. (Murillo Velarde,
Hist. de Philipinas, fol. 96 b, 97.) After the departure of Almonte
from Jolo, affairs went ill, Morales being unfit for his post as
governor of those islands, although he was valiant in battle. Having
abducted a beautiful girl, daughter of a chief named Salibanza,
a conspiracy against him was formed by the enraged father; this was
discovered, and the leaders seized. This, with several arbitrary and
hostile measures of Morales, stirred up the Joloans to revolt, and
an affray occurred between them and the Spaniards, in which Morales
was wounded. Juan Ruiz Maroto was sent to relieve him from office,
and tried to pacify the natives, but in vain; he then sent Pedro
de la Mata Vergara to harry all the coast of Jolo, who burned many
villages and carried away three thousand captives. Mata, being obliged
to return to Mindanao, was succeeded by Morales, who rashly attacked
(near Parang, Sulu Island) a force of Moros with troops exhausted by
forced marches; the Spaniards, although in numbers far superior to
the Moros, were ignominiously put to flight, thirty-nine of their
number being slain, including Morales and another officer. At this
time Cepeda was governor of Jolo, and he soon found it necessary to
chastise the natives, who were encouraged to rebellion by their recent
victory. (Combes, Hist. de Mindanao, col. 402-412; Murillo Velarde,
Hist. de Philipinas, fol. 121-122; Montero y Vidal, Hist. pirateria,
i, pp. 175-181, 199-211.) An account of his exploits in this direction
is furnished by letters of the Jesuit Miguel Paterio to Father Juan
Lopez, regarding the expeditions of Cepeda (to whom Combes dedicated
his book), written in 1643-44 (ut supra, col. cix-cxv); we present them
here as a specimen of the proceedings in these punitive expeditions.]

Relation of the exploit which was accomplished in the villages of
Paran by Captain and Sargento-mayor Don Agustin de Zepeda, warden of
the forts in Jolo.

After the disaster to Admiral Morales, the Guimbanos of the villages of
Paran were very arroga