Note 3 — MORO RAIDS REPULSED BY VISAYANS

Forrest says (Voyage to New Guinea, p. 302) in describing the pirate raids by the Moros: “The Spaniards not allowing the Bisayans fire-arms, the latter prove less able to defend themselves.” Also (p. 303): “On Celebes, they take, if in Dutch territory, even those of their own religion: a decent musselman, with his wife and four children were brought to Mindanao, by this very prow.” “The Sooloos have in their families many Bisayan, some Spanish slaves, whom they purchase from the Illanon and Magindano cruisers. Sometimes they purchase whole cargoes, which they carry to Passir, on Borneo; where, if the females are handsome, they are bought up for the Batavia market. The masters sometimes use their slaves cruelly, assuming the power of life and death over them. Many are put to death for trifling offences, and their bodies left above ground.” (Ut supra, p. 330.) ↑