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The authorities on whose accounts of the battle this description is based are Prescott, the famous historian; P. Daru, a member of the Académie Française, who wrote an exhaustive Histoire de Venise and Don Cayetano Rosell, member of the Spanish Academy, who is responsible for an exposition of the subject, known as Historia del combate naval de Lepanto.
At such a time the ballyan wears a blood-red waist, but on other occasions her dress is the same as that of the other women, and her life does not differ from their's in any respect. PEDRO ROSELL, writing in 1885, says that the ballyan then dressed entirely in red. BLAIR and ROBERTSON, Vol. XLIII, p. 217.
Cayetano Rosell, in his Historia del combate naval de Lepanto, says that the number of vessels, great and small, in the Christian armada was over 300, of which 200 were galleys, the ordinary warships of the time.
This Rosell takes as "a confirmation of the most transcendental questions of our true religion," for in Mansilatan he finds the principal god and father of Balda, "who descended from the heavens where he dwells, in order to create the world.
The singing was done in a small inclosed room, the singer slipping in and out without my seeing her." The letters of Pedro Rosell written at Caraga in 1885 contain many references to the duties of the ballyan. In one account he records the following song which he says is sung by the priestesses when they invoke their gods Mansilatan and Badla. BLAIR and ROBERTSON, Vol. XLIII, pp. 217-21, and Vol.
Rosell gives the following description of the possession of a ballyan. Nothing of this nature was seen by the writer. BLAIR and ROBERTSON, Vol. XLIII, p. 218. "They erect a sort of small altar on which they place the manaugs or images of the said gods which are made of the special wood of the bayog tree, which they destine exclusively for this use.
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