[279] The aquatic plant commonly known as "cat-tail flag" or reed (Typha latifolía).
[280] A measure, one-third vara in length.
[281] Small armed vessels like rafts.
[282] This was Father Antonio Marta, a Neapolitan, and superior of the Jesuit missions in the Malucas; with him was associated Antonio Pereira, so prominent in the expedition of Hurtado de Mendoza. See La Concepcion's account of Marta's services at this time (Hist. de Philipinas, ii, pp. 197-204). Marta is not mentioned by Sommervogel.
[283] See Dasmariñas's version of this proceeding, in Vol. VIII, pp. 239, 294; he there states that the Indians thus taken were to be freed at the end of three years' service. Cf. Vol. X, p. 214.
[284] See letters sent by Dasmariñas and his son Luis to the king of Camboja, as a result of this embassy, in Vol. IX, pp. 76-78 and 86, 87; and accounts of the Spanish expeditions to that country under Luis Dasmariñas, in Vol. IX, pp. 161-180, and X, pp. 216, 217, 226-240—also in Morga's Sucesos, chaps. V, VI (in Vol. XV of this series).
[285] Punta Azufre is on the southern coast of Batangas, Luzón; at a little distance is Punta Cazador—at the extreme southern point of Calúmpan peninsula—probably the Caça of the text.
[286] Bastardo: the large sail which is hoisted on> a galley when there is little wind.
[287] Cf. La Concepcion's account of Dasmariñas's expedition, in Hist. de Philipinas, ii, pp. 194-212.
[288] See accounts of this and later expeditions to conquer Mindanao, in Vol. IX, pp. 181-188, 281-298; and X, pp. 53-75, 214, 215, 219-226.