Sandao

The local people live on high and inaccessible ground for safety, building houses out of rushes.

In the remote valleys of these islands, there live another kind of people called the Haidan (Aeta).

Sometimes they form bands of three to five and wait in ambush in the undergrowth to shoot arrows at people passing through.

The foreign merchants give him presents of silk parasols, porcelain vessels, and rattan baskets.

For that reason, merchants coming to trade in the Three Islands usually prepare to make their return voyage in the fourth or fifth lunar month.

When trading in this country, merchants use porcelain ware, black damask, resist-dyed silk, five-colored "burned" beads, lead fishnet weights, and refined tin.

Sandao remained tributary states of Ma-i until its territories were invaded by Sulu and Brunei[4] marking the end of their independence.