ing that he would have no
opportunity so long as father Fray Francisco was living, he tried to
kill him twice, but the religious man was delivered from his ambushes,
for God took his part in a very visible and special manner. In the
discussion that the two had together, (one persuading to good, and
the other inducing to evil), it happened that Sirray and all his
partisans went to swell the army of Malong. The loyal Indians with
their families and possessions went to another village; father Fray
Francisco retired to Manila. With that the village was completely
abandoned and no more thought was expended on its rebuilding. Such
harm do dissensions cause, when, because there is no strength to attack
them, they increase to the highest degree when agitated by violence.

14. In Agno (a visita or annex of Bolinao), there was a chief called
Don Juan Durrey, a very near relative of Sumulay, and consequently
he was bound up very closely to the rebels. Three Spaniards reached
that place on Christmas day, who were fleeing from the insurgents of
Pangasinan. They showed the Indians a diamond ring, as a reward or
payment for something to eat, for they were suffering dire need. But
scarcely had they sat down to table, when Durrey inhumanly killed
them. As father Fray Luis de San Joseph (who was returning from
Masingloc whither he had taken the messages as related above), was
passing in the afternoon toward Bolinao, he noted the loud shouts
in the village, caused by the feasting and dancing that they made
according to their custom with the heads of the three Spaniards. He
attempted to approach nearer in order to check their inhumanity,
but an Indian instigated by the devil, scarcely saw the father when
he threw two spears at him. It was regarded as a miracle that the
father escaped the blow and was not wounded. Thereupon our valiant
religious lifted up his voice, and loudly condemned so unjust actions
in a fervent sermon. According to circumstances, the words on each
occasion must have served as does music on the ears of the tiger. But
in the midst of the necessary disturbance, he was enabled to tell
them with the help of God, such things that Durrey with twelve others
who followed him, had to leave the village. The others, humble and
obedient to the voice of their shepherd, surrendered the heads in
order that he might give them ecclesiastical burial. From that moment
Agno remained in the greatest quiet, like the sea, which shows the
mo