Datu Ubal's patriotic threat that was made good

(In Cotabato, in April, 1596; Argerensola's account, quoted by Rizal in his Morga Notes. Ubal's speech before a feast two days before Captain Esteban Rodriguez was killed -- Saleeby with reference to Argerensola accounts.)

Countrymen, I have killed a beef animal and invited you to the feast that the sacrifice may consecrate, and you witness, my solemn vow to dare and do in defence of our native land.

We are here in our own country, and have neither offended nor declared war upon the Castilians. Yet a Spaniard who calls himself governor (1) of Mindanaw says that he has bought, from his king over the seas, the right to conquer us and to rule in our land for two generations, during his own lifetime and that of another who shall succeed him.