Bo-ol

Bo-ol is the old name of Bohol, a limestone island in the central Visayas facing Cebu and Panglao across calm straits on the routes to Mindanao. The coast around Dauis and Mansasa has yielded many buried artifacts, and Bohol's local historians speak of a Bo-ol or Dapitan polity centred there. The Jesuit Ignacio Alcina called the island a “Venice of the Visayas”, a place of seafaring and trade.

The Jesuit Francisco Combés wrote in 1667 that the people of Panglao had once overrun mainland Bohol under two brother chiefs, Dailisan and Pagbuaya, and traded with Ternate. The story says envoys from Ternate were killed after an insult, and the sultan sent a fleet of joangas with Portuguese guns. Dailisan fell, and Pagbuaya led the survivors to northern Mindanao, where they founded Dapitan.