of them afterward who was most esteemed for his bravery,
chid him for his fault, although with demonstrations of paternal
charity. He had no intentions of exasperating him, for he knew quite
well that the Indian was inducing his countrymen to swell the number
of the insurgents by persuasion and threat. But the Indian would not
suffer the mild rebuke for that sin, which in other circumstances
would have made him experience the severities of punishment, and
deeming the occasion very suitable for the revolt of the village, he
began to pretend implacable annoyance because the father admonished
him. Following this, he became excessively angry, and hurled many
insults at the evangelical minister, and concluded by crying out:
"Long live Malong! Death to the Spaniards and the fathers!"

11. By that means the Indian obtained his desires, for more than
fifty armed companions gathered about him. They proclaimed the traitor
Malong as king; hacked the Spanish coat-of-arms which was placed on
the site where the principales met to administer justice; and they
obliged the prior, whom it was a miracle of divine Providence that they
did not kill instantly, to retire to his convent, where a guard was
established by means of some Indians who could be gathered together,
while many others who were of the loyal party, were oppressed in
their homes. There they held the prior and those who accompanied them
besieged, and did not allow them to communicate with the outside,
and refused to allow any kind of food to be taken to them, trying
by this means to restrict them to the heighth of necessity. Within
the danger was so much greater, as it was less known by the loyal
villages near by which could have sent them some aid. If the rebels
did not attack the convent in order to kill the loyal ones, it was
because they were afraid of some few arquebuses with which those
of the inside threatened them. But they endeavored to set fire to
the convent and church three times without being able to succeed,
notwithstanding that the material of the building was but little less
combustible than tinder, for it was all constructed of wood, bamboo,
and nipa. Those who tried to burn that edifice, regarded that as a
miracle. Moreover, one can well understand the necessity that they
suffered for they had no place whence to get relief, not even for the
necessities of life. Consequently they were placed at the will of the
divine Providence, who as is His custom with th