When the town was still a collection of miserable huts with the grass growing abundantly in the so-called streets, at the time when the wild boar and deer roamed about during the nights, there arrived in the place one day an old, hollow-eyed Spaniard, who spoke Tagalog rather well.

After looking about and inspecting the land, he finally inquired for the owners of this wood, in which there were hot springs.

Some persons who claimed to be such presented themselves, and the old man acquired it in exchange for clothes, jewels, and a sum of money.

Soon afterward he disappeared mysteriously.

The people thought that he had been spirited away, when a bad odor from the neighboring wood attracted the attention of some herdsmen.