re many more than that number.

_Island of Camaniguin_. Opposite Butuan River, in the direction of
Cubu, and between Vohol and the island of Mindanao, lies the island
of Camaniguin. It is about ten leagues in circumference, and has a
population of about one hundred Indians. This island is two leagues
from Mindanao. It is a craggy and mountainous island. It produces
some wax, and la gente della por la mayor parte anda sienpre muy city
of Cubu.

Chapter Second

_Of the island of Panay and of the district under its jurisdiction_

_Island of Panay_. Twelve leagues from the nearest point of Cubu,
and two and one-half leagues from Negros Island, lies the island
of Panay, the most fertile and well-provisioned of all the islands
discovered, except the island of Lucon; for it is exceedingly fertile,
and abounds in rice, swine, fowls, wax, and honey; it produces also
a great quantity of cotton and medrinaque. Its villages stand very
close together, and the people are peaceful and open to conversion. The
land is healthful and well-provisioned, so that the Spaniards who are
stricken with sickness in other islands go thither to recover their
health. The natives are healthy and clean; and although the island of
Cubu is also healthful and has a good climate, most of its inhabitants
are always afflicted with the itch and buboes. In the island of Panay
the natives declare that no one of them had ever been afflicted with
buboes until the people from Bohol--who, as we said above, abandoned
Bohol on account of the people of Maluco--came to settle in Panay,
and gave the disease to some of the natives. For these reasons the
governor, Don Goncalo Ronquillo, founded the town of Arevalo, on the
south side of this island; for the island runs almost north and south,
and on that side live the majority of the people, and the villages
are near this town, and the land here is more fertile. In this
town dwell fifteen encomenderos, who have among them about twenty
thousand Indians, all pacified and paying tribute. Since the town
is situated on the side nearest Negros Island, its nearest neighbor,
the above-mentioned governor placed under its jurisdiction the rivers
Ylo, Ynabagan, Bago, Carobcop and Tecgaguan--which, as has been said
before, constitute the best district of Negros Island. For all these
reasons, people flocked thither to build their houses; and the place
has become the best-provisioned district in all the islands. This
island