des the island of Basilan, and also the island
of Jolo and the island of Pangotaran, and other islands where many
Christians live. Five priests are divided among all those places, and
sail in the fleet of Samboangan, and they are paid at his Majesty's
expense. Those priests are Father Pedro Tellez, Father Francisco
Lado, Father Francisco de Victoria, Father Juan Andres Palavicino,
and Father Juan Montiel.

Terrenate and Siao

Three priests are busied in these missions, by order of the
government. They are Father Vicente Choua, Father Francisco Miedes,
and Father Diego de Esquivel, and they are paid at his Majesty's
expense. Another one is needed to go and come thence, in order that
the said priests may be sustained.

The above sixty-seven priests are actual instructors and
missionaries. Besides them, there are eleven students in the college
of the Society, who are studying the language and becoming suitable
ministers to supply the place of those who shall die. There are also
five masters, who teach not only the members of the Society, but also
laymen. To their teaching are indebted the majority of the beneficed
clergy, secular priests, in the islands, besides many others who have
entered the orders. They also have charge of missions. Other priests
in the said province who are occupied in the care of the Spaniards
are not named in this paper, because they are not maintained at his
Majesty's expense. These are also used to fill the vacant places of
those who are lacking in the said missions either from sickness or
death; for no priest is permitted to work therein who does not know
one of the languages of the Indians who are in our care, so that all
may be instructors. In order that this may be given credit, I have
affixed my signature in this village of San Pedro, June 30, 1655.

The Mindanao Missions

The island of Mindanao [13] is the largest of these Filipinas
Islands, next to that of Manila. A great portion of it is yet to be
subdued. In that part which is conquered, the Society has charge of
the jurisdictions of Iligan and Zamboanga. The latter is the chief
presidio of the Spaniards, where a college is in the first years of
foundation, which has a rector and five priests who work in it. The
villages that it instructs are as follows: The village of the natives
and Lutaos [14] of the same Zamboanga, who number 800 families. In
place of paying tribute, they serve as rowers in our fleets, which
are qui