he terms Zambales and Negrillos, we understand only those who are
nomadic, as above stated. As to whom these may be, we refer to the
investigations in detail; it is not for us to judge the information
given, but to credit it. This we advance as our opinion, and as such
we sign it. Given in the convent of Santo Domingo at Manila, January
1, 92.

_Fray Juan de Castro_
_Fray Alonso Ximenes_
_Fray Juan de Castro_
_Fray Juan de San Pedro Martir_
_Fray Juan Cobos_
_Fray Thomas Castellar_
_Fray Juan Garcia_

Opinion of the Jesuits

_Jesus_

In regard to our right to make war upon the Zambales, the following is
our opinion. Granting as true the reports of robberies and murders
committed by them, past and present, on both Castilians and the
pacified Indians (who are our allies, and Christians), then it must
be ascertained how these crimes have been committed--whether by all
their land in common, or one portion of their province, so that by
common consent those of one or many villages or the whole province
conspire, and the bravest and strongest go forth to rob and kill;
whether its head or chief is of one or of many villages or of the
entire province, by whose order certain men go out to commit these
depredations; or whether it is not really by common consent, or by
the authority of the chiefs, but by crowds of ruffians from one or
several villages who commit the said injuries.

If this people have a leader, and any go out from the villages or
from the province to commit assaults, then this is sufficient cause
for war. The same is true, even if they do not go at his order,
but if the chiefs allow them to go, and do not punish them; since
they have authority and power therefor. If there are no chiefs,
then it must be ascertained whether they go out by common consent,
to commit assaults, even if all do not go, but only a few. For, if
they go by common consent, then war may be made on them all. But war
may not be made if they went out as a single band of plunderers, even
when they have friends and relatives in the villages, who protect them
and supply them with food. It can not be determined that the latter
are accomplices; neither can they be punished, nor be dissuaded
from doing it, nor even prohibited from giving them food, etc.,
because of their being, as is usually the case, women and children,
while the former are barbarous and cruel men. In such a case, then,
it could only be allowable to seek to apprehend