st exquisite quietness and serenity after the most terrible storm.

15. But the place where the rage of the insurgents was felt more was
in Bolinao. Malong regarded its minister, father Fray Juan de la Madre
de Dios, with irreproachable hatred, for he was not unaware of his
great labor in restraining the Zambals. They are so warlike a nation
that they have always caused themselves to be respected not only in
Pangasinan, which province they glorify as a not despicable part, but
also throughout the Philipinas Islands where they have been able to
acquire renown through their arms. Having, then, as we have related,
sent his associate to Masingloc, he considered that the Indians left
him alone in the convent, and that they were going about cautiously
talking one with another. He summoned one of the chiefs to him and chid
him for that coldness. He learned from the Indian that Don Francisco
Caucao, a cousin of the usurping king, had arrived from Binalatongon
with an order to the effect that the Zambals should declare against
the Spaniards, under pain of being treated as rebels if they did not
do so. The Indian added that Caucao was staying in Sumulay's house,
and they were afraid that he intended to conquer their countrymen, and
that was the reason why they were all so confused. Without allowing,
then, the talk which generally increases dangers beyond what they
are in themselves, the religious father set out for Sumulay's house
in order to have an interview with Caucao, as well as for the purpose
of examining and exploring the village, in order to see whether there
were any ambuscades about it.

16. After he was assured that there were no strange enemies, he went
into the presence of the Indian, who received him seated, without
showing him the least sign of respect. The father asked him why he
came, and he answered haughtily that his cousin Don Andres Malong,
the powerful king of Pangasinan, looking with love on the Zambal
nation, and not desiring to treat them with the greatest rigor of war,
sent him to inform them to recognize him as their seignior, and that
on that same day some papers were to be read in the church in which
that would be intimated; and that the father was to reply to a letter
written by his cousin the king, conceding whatever was asked of him,
for if he did not do so, it would cost him his life. Another of less
valor than father Fray Juan would doubtless have been intimidated at
the sight of such arrogance