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He was the one who sent
most religious to Espana. Among them were the father visitor, Fray
Agustin Mejia, who, arriving afterward at Peru, was there adopted and
esteemed as his zeal and devotion deserved; the father definitor,
father Fray Felipe Tallada; father Fray Andres de Ocampo, prior of
Macabebe; father Fray Baltasar Andres; and father Fray Francisco de
Cuellar. All died except father Fray Felipe Tallada, who afterward
returned to the province of Pampanga, where he was a fine linguist.
In the following year of 1618, with these religious he sent father
Fray Alonso del Rincon (then prior of the convent of Manila) to Espana
as procurator, in order to give account of the affair in Espana; and
to bring back religious, for death was rapidly thinning the ranks of
those who remained. He had good success, as we shall see.
After the good result with the Dutch at Octong, which we have described
above, it happened that the Mindanaos conspired with their neighbors,
and came to plunder the islands, with a goodly number of caracoas
and vessels of all burden.


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