[53] Calumpit has now (1893) 15,024 inhabitants.—Coco.
Bulletin No. 1 (ut supra) gives the present civilized population of Calumpit as 13,897.
[54] A small bird, native to the island of Cerdeña, whose nest is utilized by the cuckoo. The context, however, suggests that the word may be a misprint for mezquitas, referring to the mezquit (Algarobia) of Nueva España—the writer meaning that along the Quiñgua valley were numerous thickets of some shrub resembling the mezquit. The river is now fringed with clumps of prickly bamboo. It is also possible that mosquitas is simply a misprint for mosquitos (“mosquitoes”).
[55] Fray Pedro Mejia was born in La Mancha, and professed in the Augustinian convent at Valladolid. He became prior of Guadalupe in 1621, and later definitor and visitor. He was minister at Narvacan in 1611 and of the Tagál villages of Calumpit, Bauan, and Guiguinto until his death in 1659. See Pérez’s Catálogo, p. 94.
[56] Fray Luis Ronquillo, nephew of Governor Gonzalo Ronquillo, was born in the city of Arevalo (Spain), in the province of Avila. He was lecturer in theology, master, and prior of the convent of Arenas. He went to the Philippines in 1624, where he became preacher in 1626, definitor-general in 1628, prior of Manila and master of novitiates in 1638, prior of Tondo and Malate, and definitor of the province in 1632; and was at the missions of Calumpit (1629), Bay (1635), Bulacán (1641), and Pásig (1642). He died at Manila in 1644. See Pérez’s Catálogo, p. 102.
[57] The census prior to 1893 gave Lubao 20,568 inhabitants.—Coco.
Its present civilized population according to Bulletin No. 1 (ut supra) is 19,063.
[58] Doubtless a mistake of the author, for Manila is about three hundred and twenty miles from Iloílo.—Coco.
[59] Today (1893) administered by seculars, to whom the Augustinians ceded it.—Coco.
[60] Today Halaud.—Coco.