trips to Caraga, and three to Calamianes,
with despatches or to accompany the fathers going to those posts,
and often meeting with Moros on the way, was in continual danger. He
was twice wounded and twice shipwrecked. His death occurred in the
convent of Bagungbagan.]

CHAPTER X

Our religious propagate the Catholic faith in Zambales, a province of
Philipinas. Two religious die in Espana, with great marks of holiness.

The year 1670

Sec. I

Information is given of the preaching of Ours in Zambales; and that
many Indians came newly to the Church.

396. ...Some people here in Espana imagine that the first illustrious
champions of our reformed order who went to those countries [i.e., the
Philippines], reared and finished the sightly structure of that Church,
and that the missionaries, their successors, have been and are quite
comfortable, and have no other occupation than to maintain what the
first ones built. It is a fact that, according to the philosophic axiom
that the conservation is equivalent to a second production, that would
not be doing little even did they do no more. But as a matter of truth
it must be said that if so holy a province rests in the conservation
of the conquests acquired, it also labors without end in the building
and planting of other new conquests. To this point the history has
shown many of them, [26] and I shall narrate others below. But this
year we have the profitable and difficult expedition which our ever
tireless and laborious province made into the Zambales Mountains,
for the sake of obtaining not little growth for the Christian faith.

397. The mountains called Zambales extend a distance of fifty
leguas from Mount Batan to the plains of Pangasinan in the island of
Luzon. They are peopled by an innumerable race, who defend themselves
from the Spanish arms almost within sight of Manila, because of the
roughness of the ground, and maintain along with their heathenism,
their barbarous customs. Who these people are can be seen in volume i,
to which we refer the reader, [27] We only warn him that the Indians
of whom that volume talks, inasmuch as they live in the beaches and
plains extending from Marivelez to Bolinao, and being, consequently,
needed in the trade with Spaniards and civilized Indians, are not
so ferocious as those who without these mitigating circumstances,
inhabit the rough mountains of which we speak. Not a few natives of
several nations are found in that pl