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d other war material taken from the enemy. His governorship ended June 1, 1580.--_Pablo Pastells, S.J._ [54] A small island between Sangir and Tagolanda (_Vol_. XI, p. 297). [55] Sommervogel only mentions two priests of this name in the missions of India, but both of them were of later date. [56] The supreme pontiff, Gregory XIII, erected the episcopal see of Manila December 21, 1581, with the publication of the bull _Fulti praesidio_. Clement VIII elevated it into a metropolitan church August 14, 1591, assigning to it as suffragan, the churches of Cebu, Nueva Segovia, and Nueva Caceres. To these was added that of Santa Isabel de Paro in 1865, and lastly those of Lipa, Tuguegaras, Capiz, and Zamboanga, in virtue of the apostolic decree _Quae in mari sinico_, given by Leo XIII at St. Peter's in Roma, September 17, 1902.--_Pablo Pastells, S.J._ [57] "The balete tree (_Ficus Urostigima_--Sp.) corresponds to our witch elm, and certainly at night has a most uncanny appearance. Each of these great trees has its guardian spirit, or Ticbalan" (Sawyer, _Inhabitants of Philippines_, pp. 214, 343). See also Blanco's _Flora_, art. "Ficus." Chirino speaks of this tree as having no fruit; he must have observed specimens which bore only sterile flowers. [58] The _Erythrina_ (_indica_, Lam.; _carnea_, Bl.); see Blanco's _Flora_, pp. 393, 394, and Delgado's _Historia_, pp. 429, 430, for descriptions of this tree (named by them _dapdap_). [59] _Anona_, of several species; one is commonly known as "custard-apple," another as "sour-sop." The species _A. squamota_ (Tagal, _Ates_) is regarded as producing the best fruit. [60] A species of wild hog, _Sus scropha_. In all the large islands of the Asiatic archipelago may be found wild swine, of various species. "The flesh of the hog must have formed a principal part of the animal food of the nations and tribes of the archipelago before the conversion to Mohammedanism. It did so with the people of the Philippine Islands on the arrival of the Spaniards, and it does so still with all the rude tribes, and even with the Hindoos of Bali and Lomboc" (Crawfurd's _Dictionary_, pp. 152, 153). See Zuniga's _Estadismo_ (Retana's ed.), ii, p. 438.* [61] The Haraya is a Visayan dialect. [62] That is, the most important things which happen to men in leaving this world--death, judgment, heaven, and hell; this subject is also included under the term "eschatology." [63] They were Fathers
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