ose in tribulation,
very quickly declared His patronage.

12. Having passed the time in this way until New Year's eve, it was
noted then that a medium-sized vessel was anchored not far from the
convent, and that almost all of its Indians having landed, engaged in
a very interesting conversation with the insurgents. On that account,
the prior and his men had an opportunity, to leave the convent
without being perceived, to go to the beach, and make themselves
masters of the above-mentioned vessel. They set sail without loss
of time in it. Thus freed from their peril they took their course
toward Manila. But as they were in need of food, they put in at
Bagac, where they met the three chiefs who had guided father Fray
Bernardino, and were now returning to their village. They recounted
to those chiefs the deplorable condition in which they were; and
considering that the remedy for wrongs generally lies in quickness,
they determined to take thirty well-armed Indians, whom the father
minister of Bagac prepared, and who were fortunately at that place;
and then retracing their way, to attack Masingloc suddenly. They hoped
that if they attacked the rebels when they appeared to be most secure,
it would not be difficult to reduce them all to their former quiet. So
did it happen, for the season favoring them, they disembarked on
the night of the third of January in a bay one-half hour's distance
from Masingloc, and went overland to that village. At dawn of the
fourth, they surprised the insurgents so completely, that overtaken
by fear, the latter could not put themselves in a state of defense,
while they even had no opportunity for flight. They were all seized,
and the prior, although he was full of grief at the robbery of the
sacristy and church, interceded for the prisoners, and succeeded in
having all except three set at liberty. Those three were the leaders
and later paid for their wickedness on the gallows.

13. In Cigayen (a village which had decreased very sensibly in houses
and inhabitants since the violent death of the venerable father, Fray
Alonso de San Agustin, in the year 1612), was father Fray Francisco de
San Agustin, an especially zealous minister, who was applying all the
persuasive powers of his eloquence to retaining the remnants of that
great settlement in due fidelity to God and the king. But a chief,
called Don Antonio Sirray, desired the contrary, in order to keep
things in confusion for his own profit. Know