[20] According to the MS. mentioned in preceding note, this officer was Pedro de Beaztegui (probably for Verastegui).
[21] Spanish, Avia yo andado todas estas estaçiones: an allusion to the "stations" which represent, in a Roman Catholic church, the stages in Christ's sufferings; and to the devotion which consists in making the circuit of these stations.
[23] Apparently meaning here, "the country of the Irrayas," rather than the name of any distinct district. The Irrayas are in modern times a heathen tribe, of mixed Malay and Negrito blood, dwelling in the southern part of Isabela province, Luzón, on the western slopes of the Palanan range, and on tributary streams far up the Rio Grande de Cagayán.
[24] The Angatatan River, on which is situated the hamlet of Magaldan; it falls into Lingayén Gulf.
[25] Thus in Aduarte's text, but misprinted for Guadaira. Alcala de Guadaira is a small town in the diocese of Sevilla.
[26] Prauncar, the son of Langara; he had been replaced on his throne by the Spanish adventurers. See Morga's account of Joan de Mendoza's expedition to Camboja, and the death of these two Dominicans, in Vol. XV, pp. 183-190, 244-247.
[27] According to Morga's account, this friar was a Dominican.
[28] The Dominicans made their first establishment at the City of Mexico in 1526; nine years later, their houses were organized into the province of Santiago de Mexico. In 1550, Chiapas and Guatemala were separated therefrom, and formed into a new province; and in 1592 permission was given to cut out still another, the province of Oajaca. Alonso de Vayllo was its second provincial (1594-97). See account of the Dominican order in Nueva España in the sixteenth century, in Bancroft's Hist. Mexico, ii, pp. 724-733.
[29] i.e., "Christ became, for our sake, obedient even unto death."
[30] Tomás Hernández was sent, soon after his arrival at Manila (1602), to the Japan mission; but at the end of four years he returned with broken health, which compelled him to cease his labors. He lingered, however, until 1642, when he died at Manila.
[31] See list of these missionaries in Reseña biográfica, i, pp. 307-319. Thirty-one arrived at Manila, besides the two who died on the way.
[32] One of the year-periods used in Japanese chronology (see Vol. VIII, p. 263). The Keicho period is 1596-1615.