response to his request I gave the present signed with my name.  Then the said ensigns returned, without doing anything else than to make the said signs of peace.  The natives refusing, as above said, to come, but on the contrary persisting in discharging their artillery, they returned, and declared this before the said captain and myself, the present notary.  They signed the above with their names, as did also the said captain.

Don Juan de Arce

Francisco de Rodriguez

Salvador de Sequera

Before me, and I certify thereto: 
Manuel de Caceres, notary

Then in the said galley on this said day, month, and year above stated, the said captain, before me, the undersigned notary, summoned before his Grace, the said Usman, Amat, and two other youths, all Borneans.  Through the mouth of the above-mentioned Sitahel, they were instructed that they should tell King Soltan, the tumangan, the vandara, and the other chiefs, that the said captain did not intend to enter the river, nor begin hostilities against him—­although he had not kept his word and had tried to injure his men—­because the said governor did not wish any harm to be done them, nor that they and their town should be destroyed, but desired his friendship.  For this reason he ordered that he [Sadornil] should not attack them, or enter his settlement, or do them any injury, under pain of being beheaded.  Although the men brought by the said captain had seen his rudeness, and were desirous to retaliate, he had not consented thereto; nor had his Grace desired such a thing, that he might not exceed the orders of the said governor.  Likewise they were to tell the said king and the others that, since peace with the said governor was so advisable, they should send a ship to confer and a person to treat concerning the said peace.  If they would come, the said captain would wait two more days for them.  Then returning to these men their weapons and vanca, and presenting them gifts and food, and showing them other good treatment, he let them go freely.  They left, and I, the present notary, certify thereto—­Juan de Santiago, Pedro Granado, and Sergeant Cristoval de Arqueta, being witnesses.

Don Juan de Arce

Before me: 

Manuel Caceres, notary

In the said galley, “Espiritu Santo,” on the twenty-eighth day of the month of March, one thousand five hundred and seventy-nine, the said captain—­having seen that the last Borneans sent as messengers by his Grace, on the twenty-third of this present month, did not return, but that, on the contrary, the above affair of Ensign Sequera had happened, who went to reconnoiter the island of Polocelemin; and that also no answer had been returned by the Indians despatched on the twenty-fifth of the same month; and that the said Borneans, yesterday, the twenty-seventh of this said month, came with ten or eleven vessels very near this fleet,