ands of this archipelago. They
have rendered greater their valor by the character of Christians (a
fact which they owe to the burning zeal of the discalced Augustinian
fathers, their first conquistadors), since their aid has been the
most efficient and most formidable in the invasions of the Moros,
in favor of the Church and its evangelical ministers. These people,
if they are not Butuans, differ but little from them, and now they
are united; by which we believe the origin of both to have been common.

403. The Butuans, worthy of eternal memory and thanks, as they were
the first among whom the Catholic arms found shelter, come down from
the village and river of Butuan, the coast which looks to the north
from Mindanao. It was the first soil where the famous Magallanes
[343] planted the domination of Jesus Christ and that of our Catholic
king. All these, perchance, have the same origin as the Visayans and
Pintados, because of their great nearness to them. But they are the
origin of the best blood and nobility of the Basilans and Joloans,
for the king of Xolo even confessed that he was a Butuan. But he gives
the lie to that by his barbarous procedure, for he has been the scourge
most disturbing to these islands; while the Butuans have ever remained
faithful, and have been vassals to God and to our Catholic monarch,
following the example of the Caragas throughout.

404. The Cagayans take their name from Cagayan el Chico [i.e.,
the little], which is [found by] following the coast from Butuan to
the west and southwest. It is a bay with this name, which is not of
ancient usage, but was given from the other Cagayan, today a province
in the upper part of the island of Luzon, between Cape Bojeador and
that of Engano. These islanders are reduced and civilized, and differ
but little from the previous ones [i.e., the Caragas] from which it
is argued that they are not very different from them in their origin.

405. The Dapitans were a people who inhabited a closely hemmed-in
strait between the island of Bohol and that of Panglao, and possessed
the two shores of that strait. They conquered the Boholans in a war,
and assumed their name and territory. These new and triumphant
Boholans left that island of Bohol (the country having already
been abandoned by the old Boholans), and went to live in Dapitan,
located on the Mindanao coast, almost opposite Bohol and Panglao,
whence they took the name Dapitan. That name has been extended and