t to the mountains by firing their arquebuses at them.

263. Only the family of one pious woman remained in the village, who
(although sparingly) gave them food every day. But that charity could
not last long, for necessity forced that family to take refuge with
the insurgents, thus leaving the Spaniards destitute of all human
consolation. They, seeing themselves wounded and without food, made
a small boat of bamboo, dangerous at any time, and embarked in it in
order to go to Butuan by way of the river, after they had dismantled
the fort and spiked the artillery. In order that the so evident risk
of that voyage might be more increased, their opponents pursued them
with swift caracoas, from which firing many arrows they multiplied
the wounds of the soldiers. The Spaniards, seeing that they could
not defend themselves, entered the village of Hoot where the people
had not yet risen. There they met an Indian called Palan, who was
going to Linao for his daughter, so that she might not be lost amid
the confusion of that so barbarous race. He took compassion on those
afflicted soldiers, and, availing himself of fifteen Indians who were
with him, accommodated them in his bark and took them to our convent of
Butuan. They arrived there twenty days after the insurrection at Linao,
so used up and crippled that they were already in the last extremity.

Sec. VII

Relation of the punishment of the rebels and their restoration to
their villages

264. As soon as father Fray Miguel de Santo Thomas, prior of
our convent of Butuan, learned what was passing in Linao, he
sent a messenger to Tandag and to the royal Audiencia of Manila;
for promptness is generally the most efficacious means in such
cases. Afterward the afflicted Spaniards arrived at his convent,
and he received them with great love, accommodated them in cells,
set up beds for them, and gave them medicines--assisting them with
the compassion of a father, to their consolation, and with extreme
charity aiding in their entertainment. One of those soldiers, who was
named Juan Gonzalez, had broken a leg, his body was full of wounds and
a poisoned arrow had pierced his loins. When he was treated, he was so
lifeless that all thought that he had expired. The father prior was not
a little afflicted at that, for the man had not yet been confessed,
as the father had been assisting the others. In that extremity the
father applied to him a picture of St. Nicholas of Tolentino, and