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found the natives (Boholano Filipinos) of southwestern Bohol and of 
Panglao living on the northwest coast of Mindanao at Dapitan. He 
calls them ‘“‘the noble and brave nation of the Dapitans,” and refers 
to the village of Dapitan as being small at present, but as having been 
‘“‘one of the most densely populated in the past, the one most respected 
for its power, and in our times the whole, both of these conquests and 
of their Christian churches.’’ He states: 
In a small number reduced to one single village, there is inclosed a nation 
apart from all the others and superior to all those discovered in nobility, valor, 
fidelity, and Catholicism. ‘They are descended from the island of Bool (Bohol), 
where they anciently occupied the strait made by that island and the island 
of Panglao. ‘They occupied both shores and the entire island of Panglao. 
[Visited by Pigafetta about May 3, 1521, where he found “‘black men like those 
in Ethiopia live.”] War exiled the Dapitans from their country, a proof of 
their valor and the unforeseen accidents of their misfortunes. Among the 
subanos their valor is so accredited that a Dapitan has nothing to fear among 
a hundred of them. For if they see him ready for them they do not dare to 
attack him, however thirsty for his blood their hatred makes them. The 
Subanos are all the triumphs of the arms of the Dapitans of which the sound 
and vigorous execution has drawn the former from their mountains and made 
settlements of men from savages scattered among the thickets, who are reduced 
to more civilized life. 
It was on the island of Bohol that the Spanish navigator, Miguel 
Lopez de Legaspi, about March 15, 1565, entered into a blood compact 
with Sicatuna, the Filipino chief of that island. He found Moros from 
Borneo trading with the Boholanos and also with the Subanu in northern 
Mindanao. ‘The distance from Bohol to Dapitan is about 60 miles 
and easily covered by native sailing craft. ‘The Boholanos still con- 
tinue to trade with the Subanu at points along the west coast of the 
Zamboanga peninsula from Dapitan to Sindangan, and along the north 
coast from Langaran to Dapitan. Many of the Boholanos are expert 
fishermen and sailors, and some of these people bring their fleets of 
fishing boats into Subanu waters and gather large quantities of certain 
kinds of fish known as bagon and culas1, which are cured and packed in 
salt in large jars called tinajas. 
As the Subanu generally do not own boats and are not accustomed 
to the sea, they do not know how to fish, and as they greatly enjoy this 
class of food they find it convenient to barter with the Boholanos for 
both fresh and cured fish. 
The mixture of Visayan words with Moro and Subanu is due to the 
migration of the Visayans to the shores of northern Mindanao, begin- 
ning about 1600. Pigafetta, with the Magellan expedition in 1521, 
refers to the Moros and Visayans as engaged in trade between Cebu 
and Mindanao. 
Mackinlay, in his Hand-book and Grammar of the Tagalog Lan- 
guage, says that ‘‘the Arabic words in Tagalog, which are hardly more 
than a dozen in number, evidently came in with the Mohammedan 
