I pass over many other peculiarities for fear of tiring your Majesty.
There are many good and savory wild fruits there.

The ordinary food in those islands is rice, as it is over all Asia and the neighboring islands; and I dare assert that more people are supported in the world by rice than by wheat.

There is a great deal of sugar, which is usually worth four reals the arroba, or less; and the Chinese bring so much rock sugar, which they call _cande_, that it is ordinarily worth eight reals an arroba, or less.
In that part of the island of Mindanao which faces the south, as I have said above, the Indians are rebellious; and it is they who have done, and still do, great damage to the others.

They have taken up the doctrine of Mahoma and are friendly with the Dutch.

As they have not been given into slavery, they are not pacified; and this is one of the most important matters there, and deserves the application of a remedy..