Crossword-Solution: PINTADOS 8 letters, 3 clues 🏆 scrabble score: 11

Ascending the valley's opposite wall, we found the remains of primaeval forests,--little glades which had escaped the axe,-- they resounded with the cries of pintados and cynocephali.

Especially had he done this with Estevan Rodriguez de Figueroa, a wealthy man of the Pintados, to whom he "had shown an appointment drawn in his favor." In Manila, Pedro de Rojas, lieutenant-assessor, is chosen governor ad interim, but after forty days Luis Perez Dasmariñas takes the office by virtue of an appointment regularly drawn in his favor.

The Joloans and Mindanaos are emboldened by the final abandonment and dismantling of the fort at La Caldera--which is decided upon by the governor against the opinion of the Audiencia--and, joined in self-defense by the peaceful natives of Mindanao, make an incursion against Spaniards and natives in the Pintados in 1599, in which they take immense booty and many captives.

While Acuña is on his way to Pintados to inspect those islands, a raiding expedition of Moros goes as far as Luzon and Mindoro, committing many depredations, thus compelling the governor to return, who narrowly escapes capture.

Thence he proceeded to the Filipinas; entering through the province of Pintados, he came in sight of the town of Arevalo and of the shipyard where a galleon was being built for the navigation of the Nueva España line.