[46] See account of the first printing in the islands (1593), in vol. ix, p. 68; and that of printing in China, in vol. iii, p. 206.
[47] Tomás Mayor came to Manila with the Dominican mission of 1602, and spent several years in their residence of San Gabriel among the Chinese; he composed a useful catechism in that language. In 1612 he went to Macao, at the summons of the bishop there; but finding it impossible then to found a Dominican house at Macao, he departed thence for Europe--dying, however, in that same year, before reaching his destination.
[48] Francisco de la Mina, an Andalusian, was a missionary among the Mexican Indians during forty years. Coming to Manila in 1589, he labored in Bataán for a time; and was afterward made prior of the Dominican convent in Manila, where he died in 1592.
[49] A topic then of special interest to the Dominicans, since Bishop Salazar (who belonged to their order) had but recently been involved in a hot controversy with Dasmariñas over the collection of tributes from the Indians (see correspondence between them at end of VOL. VII and beginning of VOL. VIII). All the missionaries in the islands had opposed slavery, whether among the Indians or the Spaniards; and the latter had adopted this practice to such an extent that Gregory XIV commanded them in 1591 to cease it entirely (VOL. VIII, pp 70-72).
[50] A cape (now known as Piedra Point) at northwest extremity of Zambales peninsula, Luzón; name also applied to the narrow channel between that cape and Purra Island.
[51] Cf. with this the description in Sir Thomas Malory's Morte d'Arthur (book xxi, chap. iv) of the last and fatal combat between King Arthur and Sir Mordred: "And when Sir Mordred felt that he had his death-wound, he thrust himself unto the bur of King Arthur's spear," and with this final effort dealt a mortal blow on the king's head.
[52] Spanish, viva quien vence; equivalent to the English saying, "Might makes right."
[53] Spanish, pascuas. Certain great church festivals last three days or more in Spain.
[54] All these are towns on or near the northern coast of Cagayán.
[55] Miguel Martin de San Jacinto made his profession at Salamanca, in 1586. He seems to have spent his life after coming to the islands (1595) in the Cagayán missions, in which he was a prominent worker. He died there, at Abulug, April 26, 1625.