ften committing acts of treachery while making that
passage. Civet-cats are found in all parts of the island of Mindanao;
but the people are poorly supplied with food and clothing.

_Island of Soloc_. Twenty leagues from this Cinnamon Point lies
the island of Soloc. Its inhabitants are Moros from Burney. It
was discovered at the same time as was the river of Burney. The
island is about twenty-four leagues in circumference, and is said
to have somewhat more than one thousand inhabitants. It is said to
have elephants and a fine pearl-fishery. It belongs to one of the
encomenderos of Cubu, and is within the jurisdiction of that city.

_Island of Mindanao, continued_. All the region northeast of
Dapitan, as far as the river of Butuan, is under one encomendero,
except the villages of Gonpot and Cagayan. These two villages,
on account of their production of cinnamon, are under his Majesty,
although their population is small, not exceeding two hundred men. The
same encomendero has charge also of the district between Dapitan and
almost to the Cinnamon Point, so that his encomienda in this island of
Mindanao is of nearly sixty leagues' extent; he is also encomendero of
the above-mentioned island of Soloc, and holds another encomienda in
the island of Cubu. With all this, he is poor [and dying of hunger:
_crossed out in original MS_.], and cannot help laying hands on all
the discovered land of Mindanao

_Rivers: Paniguian, Ydac, Matanda, Ytanda, Tago, Ono, Beslin--all of
which have about three thousand men, for the most part hostile_. Around
the river Butuan, which belongs to Guido de la Vecaris, dwell about six
hundred Indians who are in this island. Farther on are to be found the
rivers Surigao, Parasao and others, all poor regions notwithstanding
their gold-placers. The same may be said of the rivers Paniguian,
Ydac, Matanda, Ytanda, Tago, Ono, and Beslin--all of which have a
population of about three thousand, mostly hostile.

Two attempts have been made to explore the chief river of Mindanao--the
most important of the island, and from which the island of Mindanao
derives its name--but with little result, for our people have been
able to discover only six or seven villages. Of these villages the
principal one is where the petty king lives; others are Tanpacan,
Boayen, and Valet, with others, which, according to what has been seen,
have a population of a little more than three thousand, although it
is reported that there a