ons,
and for that purpose sent the Jesuit Father Antonio de Borja, who
was able to attain his object. (Montero y Vidal, Hist. pirateria, i,
pp. 244-252. Cf. Combes, Hist. Mindanao, col. 610-640.)

The king of Jolo, on the contrary, had for many years maintained peace
and friendly relations with the Spaniards, much to the resentment of
his chiefs and captains, who derived much more profit from hostile
raids than from trade and peace; therefore by means of their
confidential agents they spread the report that the king of Jolo
was talking of sending an armed fleet of twenty joangas to plunder
these islands. The principal author of this was a Joloan named Linao,
who was on intimate terms with the Spaniards, and a Guimbano named
Palia. But the king of Jolo was very far from thinking of such changes,
and it would have been better for us if we had not so readily believed
it. At this information Don Fernando de Bobadilla despatched his armada
against Jolo, under General Don Pedro de Viruega; but when he reached
that island he found that the story that they had spread abroad against
the king was false, and Don Pedro, having talked with him, went back
to Zamboanga well satisfied of his peaceable attitude. But it was not
long before the former rumors against the king of Jolo were again
current; the author of them was Linao, who desired a rupture [with
the Spaniards], so that he with other pirates might go out on raids
against these islands--in which enterprise he was more interested
than in the peace of his king. This plan he carried out in company
with two others, Libot and Sacahati, who went cruising with several
vessels and did much damage in the islands of Pintados and Masbate,
until they reached the Limbones; [99] from that place they chased the
corregidor of Mariveles, and captured the provincial of our discalced
Augustinian religious and those who were accompanying him, on his
return from visiting the Christian villages of Bolinao--although these
persons escaped by jumping ashore. But there was one who could not do
this, father Fray Antonio de las Misas (also a discalced Augustinian),
who was coming from Cuyo and Calamianes to visit those convents. This
religious might with good reason be regarded as a martyr; for with
his blood only were the hands of the renegade Linao stained, as he
spared the lives of all the rest in his greed for ransom. Although
the pirates knew that the ransom of this religious promised them more