Editing Lakandula (section)

==Documentary sources==
Primary documentary sources about Lakandula are sparse, so much so that there has been debate about the actual name of the Lakan. Dery identifies three types of sources regarding Lakandula:<ref name="inarticulate"/> 
* direct accounts of Legaspi's 1571 conquest, and indirect references from other documents of the period;
* a record group in the Philippine National Archives collectively referred to as the "Lacandola Documents" containing mostly 18th-century genealogical documents; and
* folklore, which "suggests prior lineage where documentation definitively identifies only descendants".

===Direct accounts and references from period documents===
In his "''Bibliographic Essay''" at the end of his book "''Barangay:Sixteenth Century Philippine Culture and Society''", William Henry Scott<ref name="ScottBarangay"/>{{rp|284}} identifies the three accounts directly detailing the events of Lakandula's lifetime:
* An account written by Miguel Lopez de Legazpi himself;
* An account by '''royal notary Hernando Riquel''' who was part of Legazpi's expedition; and
* a third account which is anonymous, but which Scott suggests is '''probably written by royal notary Hernando Riquel.'''

Scott singles this third account out as particularly useful, because it '''includes careful observations of the islands and people contacted'''.<ref name="ScottBarangay"/>{{rp|284}}

Scott also identifies other accounts that do not directly refer to that occasion, but provide additional information about conditions at the time. These include two accounts of the Magellan voyage, reports from the attacks on Borneo in 1578–1579, letters to the king from royal auditor Melchor de Avalos, Reports by later Governors General, passing details in sworn testimony about Augustinian activities (the latter two recorded in Blair and Robertson), Correspondence of Augustinian Fray [[Martin de Rada]], the Relacion accounts of Miguel de Loarca and [[Juan de Plasencia]], and the [[Boxer Codex]], which "can be dated to 1590 on internal evidence."<ref name="ScottBarangay"/>{{rp|284}}