ly of Malay origin, living in the interior of Sulu
Island. Their name is derived from their war drum (guimba). Later
writers are silent concerning them. In modern times the first mention
of them is by P. A. de Pazos and by a Manila journal, from which
accounts they are still at least in Caroden and in the valley of
the Loo; it appears that a considerable portion of them, if not the
entire people, have received Islam." Retana (Pastells and Retana's
Combes, col. 779) derives the name of these people from guimba,
"a mountain." They are not mentioned under this name by the Census
of the Philippines.

[79] Pedro de Almonte Verastegui, of Sevilla, was a brave soldier,
who served as general and sargento-mayor, and admiral of an expedition
against Maluco. He was especially distinguished for his honesty and
uprightness. In Sibuguey he attained equal merit with Corcuera, and
in 1638 conquered Jolo. Diego Fajardo assigned him the encomienda
of Lorenzo Canete, left vacant (July 1, 1645), by the death of the
latter's son. (Pastells and Retana's Combes, col. 695.) Almonte
Verastegui has often been mentioned in this series.

[80] The Chinese, during the Spanish regime of the Philippines, were
allowed to smoke opium under certain rules; but its use was prohibited
to the natives, although it was at times used secretly. (Pastells
and Retana's Combes, col. 781.)

[81] The former officer of the crown of Aragon, who was assigned to
duty immediate to the king's person. He enjoyed several privileges,
one of them being to hold the royal sword naked in public
ceremonies. (Dominguez, Diccionario nacional.)

[82] The arms of the natives of Mindanao, like their clothes,
are manufactured by themselves. The spears and campilans are said
to be finely tempered. They themselves adjust the dies for their
pataquias. The sheaths, like the hafts of their krises, are of gold
richly engraved. The haft of the kris used by Dato Ayuman of Tabiran
was of solid gold, and was engraved with sentences from the Koran
in Arabic characters. The usual weapons are: campilans, krises
(straight and wavy), machetes, bolos, ligdaos, sundanes, various
kinds of spears, balaraos, and badis. They use coats-of-mail made
of brass, tortoise-shell, malibago [-bark], or very thick cloth, or
long sashes wound about the breast. Spears and arrows are generally
poisoned with the resin of the tree called quemandag or the poison of
red ants or scorpions; and the points of their dagger