their tribute in yonote, which is a
kind of black hemp, produced by certain palms. It is used for the
larger cables of ships, which are made in the rope factory of the
village of Tal." Cf. bonote, Vol. X, p. 58; and Vol. XIV, p. 257.

[34] San Antonio, i, p. 102, notes that the island of Mindoro was
formerly called Mait. Its Chinese name was Ka-may-en (see Vol. XXXIV,
p. 187, note 15).

[35] Our author refers in a sidenote to San Agustin's Conquistas,
book ii, chapter i, pp. 216, 250. The first page makes no mention of
the "simplicity."

[36] The sidenote reference to San Antonio is to his Chronicas,
volume i, p. 103.

[37] A sidenote reference is to San Agustin's Conquistas, pp. 216,
224, 292.

[38] See Vol. II, p. 59, note 22.

[39] Sidenote reference: San Agustin, ut supra, p. 292.

[40] Sidenote reference: San Agustin, p. 250.

[41] Sidenote references: Father Fray Marcelo de Ribadeneyra, in his
Historia, folio 84; father Fray Juan Francisco de San Antonio in his
Chronicas, volume i, folio 20.

[42] Murillo Velarde (folio 123 verso, no. 306) records that two
Jesuits were sent to Mindoro to work in the field of the seculars
in 1640. Juan de Polanco, O.P., notes that about 1645 there were
four or five Jesuits in Mindoro who worked among the people of the
uplands (see Pastells's edition of Colin's Labor evangelica, iii,
p. 735). San Antonio notes (i, p. 203) Jesuit residences in the
jurisdiction of Mindoro.

[43] A sidenote reference is to nos. 400, 715, ante.

[44] Our author refers in a sidenote to San Antonio, i, p. 207.

[45] A sidenote reference is to folio 80 of Joseph Sicardo's
Christiandad del Japon, ... Memorias sacras de los martyres de las
ilustres religiones ... con especialdad, de los religiosos del orden
de S. Augustin (Madrid, 1698).

[46] A sidenote refers to Santa Theresa, no. 740 ff.

[47] A sidenote refers to San Antonio, i, p. 207. The present total
population of Mindoro (according to the Census of the Philippines
ii, p. 407) is 28,361, of which the civilized or Christian people
number 21,097. The native peoples include Bicols, Ilocanos, Mangyans,
Painpangans, Pangasinans, Tagalogs, Visayans, and Zambals. The wild
people are all Mangyans.

[48] See ante, note 47. See also the Census of the Philippines (i,
pp. 472, 473, 547, 548), which says that the Mangyans are probably
a mixture of Negritos with other native peoples, and possibly some
slight infusion of white blood in some lo