From the pages of The Chronicles of the War of Names in the Suyo Islands of Palawan (part 2): Datu Sumaclob promised them 2,000 mercenary warriors from Suyo islands and, as was the custom then, they prepared a feast to celebrate the merger. Antonio Surabao, one of the wealthy highlander chiefs of the Amianan tribe of the Suyo islands, despised the Spaniards, but he despised Datu Sumaclob more because of his warm welcome to the European blue-blooded outsiders and of eventually making them honorary Amianan chiefs with the promise of giving them territory in exchange for whatever riches the Europeans have to offer to Datu Sumaclob and company. It was because of this deep hatred and envy of the outsiders that drove Antonio Surabao to play the role of traitor in this plot by the Tagalog

