Note 53 — Chapter XVI
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The father provincial established religious in Calumpit, one day’s journey from Manila toward the east (where the Tagál language is likewise spoken), bordering the province of Pampanga. It is located on a beautiful river called Quingua, of excellent water, which is used by all the convents of that district. It was a very densely populated district, but now it has but few people, for the Indians have not remained there.53 It had formerly innumerable mosquitas,54 but now few; and some sugar plantations, which were started by father Fray Pedro Mejía,55 and continued by father Fray Luis Ronquillo.56 If [214] care were taken of them, the convent would be supplied with what is necessary. It is a priorate and has a vote. Its Indians number about five hundred.