These islands are extremely healthful and fertile, and will be very easy to win over to the faith of Christ, if, on the passage of the vessels to Manila a few religious, together with some soldiers for protection, should be left there until the next year.

[34] This would cost but a moderate sum.
Their rites and ceremonies are not known yet, because no one understands their speech; and it has not been possible to learn it, since no one has been in these islands longer than while passing.

According to all appearances, their language is easy to understand, for it is pronounced very distinctly.

Their word for ginger is _asno_; and for "Take away that arquebus," they say, _arrepeque_.

They have no nasal or guttural words.