Author: Blair, Emma Helen, ed. d.1911. [Vol. 1, no.

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I629-I630] MEDINA'S HISTORIA 263 cause of the men drafted for Manila. It has about six hundred Indians as tributaries. Two religious live there generally. Service is performed in the Tagal tongue. We have mentioned this convent in our description of the lake of Bongbong or Taal, which is the nearest convent to Batangas, from which it is even distant only one day's journey; the road passes through certain most excellent meadows, resembling those of Espaina, where one may rear an immense number of cattle. The Indians through all this district, which they call the Comintan, make use of domestic cattle on which they travel and carry their loads. The language used there is much like the Bisayan, for one can cross from this town of Batangas, which is located on a very beautiful bay, to the Bisayas with great ease during the brisas. This district belongs to the archbishopric of Manila.