ery observant in their
ministries, and attend to the service of your Majesty, on occasions
of enemies by sea and land, where some have been killed and captured."

Before proceeding further, it will not be an impertinent digression
to mention and explain briefly the services above mentioned, stating
first that our religious serve as chaplains in the forts of Tandag,
Calamianes, Bagangan, and Linao, with notable sacrifice both of
their liberty (for they are often captured and illtreated) and
of their lives, because of the bad voyages on, and hardships of,
the seas. When Don Fernando de Silva was governing the islands,
a fleet was sent against the Bornean and Camucones enemy, who were
devastating the coasts, seizing numbers of captives, and committing
other depredations. As chaplains went fathers Fray Diego de San Joan
Evangelista, native of Zaragoca, and Fray Joan de la Cruz. They bore
themselves so devotedly amid the military excitements, and gave so good
examples, that the chief commander, one Captain Bartolome Diaz, finding
it necessary to absent himself, in order to leave his men with security
and in quiet appointed, with well recognized prudence, the first above
named. For that religious, not as a substitute for the commander,
but as a father, cared for all, and they were satisfied. And they were
surprised, because it happened that, the supply of water falling short,
they sought it, but were unable to find any in various parts of the
islands, and were suffering the anguish and affliction that can be
imagined in such an extremity, when one day the said father said mass,
begging our Lord for help in such need. It happened, then, that after
performing his ministry he returned to the men and told them to be very
joyful, and to look in the direction that he pointed out to them for a
spring that was there. They found it immediately, not very far away,
and praised God for so great a mercy. In the insurrection of Caragha
a numerous fleet was also prepared; Captain Joan Mendez Porras was
accompanied, for the common consolation of the soldiers, by fathers
Fray Lorenco de San Facundo and Fray Diego de Santa Ana. By their
efforts the villages of Bislin, Careel, and Bagangan were conquered
and that land again reduced. In another fleet that set out from the
same province of Caragha, Captain Joan Nicolas chose father Fray
Jacinto de San Fulgencio, whereupon many villages surrendered to
the service of the king; and the Indians of th