fate of other insurgent leaders. The efforts of Malong, through
his relative Sumulay, in the village of Bolinao, are frustrated by
the vigilance and courage of Juan de la Madre de Dios, the vicar in
charge of the convent there, but his church is burned by the insurgent
sympathizers. The fathers and loyal natives, notwithstanding repeated
threats of death, under the active leadership of the above father hold
to their post, although one of the fathers, Luis de San Joseph, would
have gladly abandoned the place. This same priest, however, performs
brave feats in his delivery of messages from the vicar of Lingayen
(who describes the revolt in Pangasinan, and asks aid from Manila),
to the convent of Masinloc. Thence those messages are taken to Manila
by Bernardino de la Concepcion, accompanied by three loyal chiefs,
who are suitably rewarded for their services.

With the absence from Masinloc of the three loyal chiefs
above-mentioned, treason shows its head in that village, its immediate
outbreak being due to an inopportune rebuke administered by the
prior to a chief who had neglected to attend mass. The religious and
loyal natives are besieged in the convent, but escape by stratagem, by
seizing a boat in which some natives have come to the village. Reaching
the village of Bagac, they meet there the three loyal chiefs who
are returning from Manila, and with their aid and that of thirty men
gathered by the prior of Bagac, they recover the village of Masinloc
from the insurgents. The majority of the inhabitants receive pardon,
but three of the ringleaders are put to death.

In the village of Cigayen, a chief, Sirray, acts as agent for
Malong, but failing to succeed in his plan to murder the religious
there, finally joins Malong with twenty-five followers, while the
father retires to Manila, and the village is abandoned by its other
inhabitants. The village of Agno is quieted by the efforts of the
Recollect Luis de San Joseph; and the chief, Durrey, the cause of
the trouble there, and twelve of his partisans are forced to flee. In
Bolinao, the flames of insurrection break out once more, for the vicar,
Juan de la Madre de Dios, is now alone. Malong sends an emissary,
one Caucao, to deliver to him a letter, demanding that the place be
turned over to him. The father, however, is enabled by the chance
arrival of a champan with some religious, Spaniards, and natives, who
are fleeing from Ilocos, to outwit his enemies for the time