DISCOVERY HISTORY. 9 
After coasting along the island of Panilongon (Panglao, off S. E. coast of 
Bohol) where black men like those in Ethiopia live, we then came to a large 
island (Mindanao) whose king, in order to make peace with us, drew blood 
from his left hand, marking his body, face, and the tip of his tongue with it asa 
token of the closest friendship, and we did the same. I went ashore with the 
king in order to see that island. ‘Two hours after nightfall we reached the 
king’s house, two leguas from the beginning of the river. ‘The king’s name is 
Raia Calanao. ‘The harbor is an excellent one and is called Chipit. 
By some writers this word “‘Chipit”’ is interrupted as “‘Quipit,”’ 
a Moro rancheria on the northwest coast of the Zamboanga peninsula, 
about 45 miles south of Dapitan, but without a harbor, and where ships 
can not lie with safety during the southwest monsoon. 
In 1656 Father Francisco Colin, in writing of the Subanu of the 
Dapitan district, describes them as ‘“‘the nation of Subanos, which is 
the most numerous in the island of Mindanao and well disposed toward 
evangelical instruction, as they are heathens and not Mahometans, as 
are the Mindanaos.”’ 
In Pigafetta’s account of the voyages of Magellan, 1519 to 1522, he 
refers to the journey from Jolo along the west coast of the Zamboanga 
Peninsula as follows: 
Then we laid our course east by north between two settlements called 
Cauit and Subanin, and an inhabited island called Monoripa, located about 
ten leguas from the reefs. ‘The people of that island make their dwellings in 
boats and do not live otherwise. In those two settlements of Cauit and 
Subanin, which are located in the island of Butuan and Calaghan, is found the 
best cinnamon that grows. Laying our course to the northeast, we sailed toa 
large city called Maingdanao, which is located in the island of Butuan and 
Calaghan, so that we might gather information concerning Maluco. 
The identification of this part of the voyage north and east from 
Jolo (written Zolo by Pigafetta) is very much involved when it is com- 
pared with existing conditions and nomenclature. The Cauit referred 
to may be the rancheria of Kauit located in Kauit Bay on the west 
coast of the Zamboanga Peninsula, about 30 miles north of the town 
of Zamboanga, the present capital of the Moro Province. Thereisa 
small island in Kauit Bay, about one-fourth mile from the submerged 
reefs at the coast line, but this island does not answer to Pigafetta’s 
description of Butuan. The cave of Kaua Kaua, near the western 
extremity of the town of Zamboanga, is the location of a very old settle- 
ment of non-Christians, which may have been visited by Pigafetta. 
The settlement of Subanin might have been a rancheria of Subanu 
located near Kaua Kaua. Off to the southeast of Kaua Kaua, about 
two miles, lie the islands of Santa Cruz small and Santa Cruz large. 
Farther to the east in Basilan Straits are the islands of Coco, Sibago, 
Lanhil, Tiktaban, Bilang Bilang, and Sakol, the latter being the largest 
of the group—all at the entrance to Sibugay Bay. If Pigafetta entered 
this bay on his way south to Sarangani Bay and the Moluccas (October 
1521), he may have seen and visited the island of Buluan with its 
