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assistance for the mission, he finds the place 

 where it stood ravaged and desolate. He now con- 

 tinues his tedious route to Manilla. " They learnt 

 from a prisoner whom they took, that ten days 

 after the departure of Father Victor, on the 9th of 

 July 1731, Father Cantova was called upon, on 

 pretence of baptizing a grown-up person. He 

 went thither with two soldiers, and found all in 

 arms. They alleged that he wanted to establish 

 a new law against the old one, and against their 

 customs ; they pierced him with three lances, two 

 in the sides, and one in the heart ; they likewise 

 killed the two soldiers, and threw them into the 

 sea. They stript the Father, much astonished that 

 he was so white, and hid him under a small roof.* 

 They afterwards fell unexpectedly on those who 

 had remained at Falalep, who were only able to 

 discharge their small cannons ; killed four Indians, 

 and wounded others with the sword : but their 

 defence was in vain. All the Spaniards on the 

 island, who were fourteen in number, were mas- 

 sacred ; and only a young Tagalese, the sacrist of 

 the Father, and whom the chief of the island had 

 adopted for a son, was spared. 



" This same prisoner informed them, that the 

 confidant of the Father, one of the name of Digal, 

 whom he had baptized at Guahon, was the princi- 

 pal leader of this revolt." 



* So tliey bury their own dead. The Father was treated as 

 a prmce, the soldiers as common people. 



