Barrantes (Guerras Piraticas) wrongly dates the abandonment of La Caldera and the incursion of the Moros 1590. Continuing, he says: “The following year they repeated the expedition so that the Indians retired to the densest parts of the forests, where it cost considerable trouble to induce them to become quiet, for a woman, who proclaimed herself a sibyl or prophetess, preached to them that they should not obey the Spaniards any longer, for the latter had allied themselves with the Moros to exterminate all the Pintados.”
[17] Native word for mountain.
[18] Those to whom land had been granted with control over the natives who worked on it.
[19] The Island of Gimarás, southeast of Panay, and separated from it by the Strait of Iloilo.
[20] Probably gongs.
[21] Neither Stanley nor Rizal throws any light on this word. The Spanish dictionaries likewise fail to explain it, as does also a limited examination of Malay and Tagal dictionaries. Three conjectures are open: 1. A derivative of tifatas, a species of mollusk, hence a conch; 2. A Malay or Tagal word for either a wind or other instrument, the Malay words for “to blow,” “sound a musical instrument,” being tiyup and tiyupkan; 3. A misprint for the Spanish pifas, a possible shortened form of pifanos, signifying fifes.
[22] The Philippine Islands, Blair and Robertson, XV, pp. 240–244, 264–268.
[23] Sailing vessels.
[24] The Philippine Islands, Blair and Robertson, XXIII, pp. 87, 88.
[25] Unsigned.