e;
but a beginning having been made in one, it could have become natural
in its propagation.

6. Thus did those Recollect religious find that island, and, believing
it to be important for the reductions, they continued to establish
their regular administrations. The first was in Baco. There, inasmuch
as it was the capital, lived the corregidor, but the capital was
later moved to Calapan. In that district they formed the villages
of Calapan, Baco, Suban, Ylog, Minolo, and Camoron, with a number
of annexed villages or visitas. The second was in Naohan, which
was extended into six annexed villages, namely, Pola, Pinamalayan,
Balete, Sumagui, Maliguo, and Bongabon. The third was in Calavite,
which formed the visitas of Dongon, Santa Cruz, Manburao, Tubili,
and Santo Thomas. The fourth was in Mangarin, which was extended into
its dependencies, Guasic, Manaol, Bulalacao, and Ililin. They also
began an active mission in order to reduce the heathen Mangyans, which
had no other work than to employ itself in those glorious reductions
and conversions of grace. For one single man it was an immense work,
but the superior government gave no more stipends. That mission was
established on the bay of Ylog, and ministers and infidels were pledged
not to allow [there] any of the former Christians, who might pervert
the conversions. By that arrangement it grew to a very large village,
and there were practiced some of the old customs that belonged to the
primitive church. All that fine flower-garden has been trampled down
and even ruined by the Moros, as will be related in due season.

7. The Dominican fathers also applied themselves to the work in the
province of Zambales. That province had already eleven villages formed,
although they were small, because that province has but few people. It
appeared to the new fathers that that number of villages made their
administration difficult; consequently, they tried to reduce their
number by uniting some of them. That incorporation was difficult;
hence they increased the troops and arms of the presidio of Paynaven,
the center of that province. Through the protection afforded by those
troops, they broke up the whole province. The village of Bolinao,
which had a fair population, was located on an island, which is
separated from the land by only a channel, which forms its famous
and secure port. [65] It was fertile and pleasant. They moved it to
the mainland, to a sandy shore, useless for anything,