_How little establishment has been made in the country._ Second: Inasmuch as this pacification can be made justifiably, there is the utmost need for it (even in the very region where the Spaniards reside and travel--_Madrid MS._), both for the Spaniards and some Christians, since it is all so disaffected and unsubdued for lack of troops, as above stated, and because they have not the necessary pay.

Thus even in the island of Lucon are provinces that have never been conquered, or which, although once subdued, have revolted again--as those called Cagayan, Pangasinan, Playa Onda, Zanbales, Balete, Cataduanes, and others, surrounding and near Manila.

These are mixed up with the pacified provinces, and thus it is neither all done nor to be done, for the want of a little system and provision.
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_The obligation to protect those already converted._ Third: Not only is it necessary to establish the said equipment and system, but it even appears that his Majesty has an obligation thereto, because of the so great service that he has rendered to God by the conversion of so many souls, who are under his royal protection, who exceed two hundred and fifty thousand in number.

By not being able to protect these, they are suffering at present great hardships and wrongs from the disaffected and unpacified natives, who daily attack and kill them, and burn their houses, crops, and palm-trees.