rom the other villages which the Mindanaos sacked.

The Camucones also--a people from islands subject to Borney, cruel
and barbarous, and Mahometan by religion, although there are pagans
in some islands--made their raids into the island of Panay, chiefly
on the villages of Bataan, Domayan, and Mahanlur, and in those of
Aclan and Bahay, where they captured many of our Indians, and burned
the churches of the visitas. The visitas are usually deserted, and
have no houses to defend them; and those Camucones are very cowardly
and very different from the Joloans and Mindanaos, who are valiant,
and much more so the latter named. The Camucones entered by the
river and bar of Batan, which is salt water, where a very grievous
jest happened to two or three of their craft. The river of Batan has
another river a short distance above the village road, which ends
in a very wide and spacious sea, which they call "tinagongdagat," or
"hidden sea," in which the inhabitants enjoy excellent fishing. With
the ebb of the tide that spacious sea is left almost dry, and then
many kinds of shellfish are caught, such as oysters and crabs. The
Camucones entered that sea, with the intention of lying in wait for
some capture, but when they least expected it they found their craft
on dry ground. An Indian who was gathering the aforesaid shellfish
saw them; and, recognizing them to be piratical enemies by the style
of their craft, went to the village and gave warning of them. Many
of the inhabitants of Batan assembled, and, well armed, attacked
the Camucones very courageously. They made a great slaughter of the
pirates, and captured many of them and burned their craft. Some of
the Camucones escaped through the mangrove plantations and swampy
ground. They were captured next day, with the exception of those who
had the luck to rejoin the boats of their companions--who repenting
of their carelessness, returned to their lands, and did not return
to try their fortune in those regions for many years.

Those Camucones enemies, entering that island of Panay in the
same district between Bataan and Aclan, in 1672, captured the
alcalde-mayor of Panay, Captain Don Jose de San Miguel. He defended
himself against them until he was killed, and immediately when that
was known they beheaded him, and took his head and skin to their land
as a trophy. Better fortune was experienced by the notary, Pedro de
Villarus, who was in another boat; for, having seen the Camucones,