p. 561). Retana and Pastells,
in their edition of Combes, make Tulaya the modern Tulayan, near
Sulu--an evident error, from Diaz's statement.

[96] Referring to the governor ad interim from November, 1661 to
February, 1662; Combes describes at length his "persecution" of the
Jesuits at Zamboanga (col. 591-609), but does not mention his name.

[97] "Hardly had Morales reached the islands, when a new despatch
arrived from Manila, repeating the same orders. The silence of the
Spaniards [i.e., regarding their first order to leave the fort],
and the hurried preparations that were made that very night for the
withdrawal of Morales, inflamed the injured feelings of the Lutaos,
nor could any argument repress them. The governor did not attempt
to do more than console them, in order that they might prudently
decide what they should do; he told them that the Spaniards would
never forsake them, and that if the Lutaos would follow them there
were places in the islands, with equal and even greater advantages,
where they could live; that Corralat was friendly, and the Spaniards
would charge him to maintain friendly relations with them, which
they could with good reason expect, as he was of the same nation as
themselves; that if he should not fulfil this obligation, occasion
would not fail the Spaniards to avenge them. He also said that they
could, with the forts which he left to them, easily defend themselves
from their enemies; and finally, that they should await the ultimate
decision which would be brought by General Don Francisco de Atienza
on his way to Maluco, since it might improve the condition of affairs.

"Little impression did these arguments, which the Spaniards offered
by way of consolation, make on the Lutaos. The tyrannies that they
would experience when left to their own government had no respect
for kinship, nor was there any law save that of might. To leave
their homes was most difficult, and to transplant their villages
was to ruin them. To defend the fort supplies of ammunition and
food were required, and they had no fund to meet these costs. They
gave way to lamentations and complaints that, as they had served
the Spaniards with their lives, they had roused in their neighbors a
mortal hatred; that, notwithstanding they had become Christians, they
were left abandoned, in the power of the Moros, without instruction,
or defense, or honor. They recounted their services, and their sighs
grew heavier, while they decla