had seized any galleys and artillery. The said
bandahala went to the said galleon to talk with the
said captain, Pedro Lopez de Sossa. He asked him,
in the name of the king of Borney, to help him fight
the Castilians, who were about to return there for
the tribute; and desired them to remain in the island.
If he would winter there, the king of Borney would
pay him as much as he would gain in Maluco. The
said Captain Pedro Lopez answered him that he was
about to make investigations in Maluco, which was
in bad condition, and could not remain in Borney.
It was likewise impossible for him to fight with the
Castilians, for they were brothers. If he wished
to ask for help, he must send to request it from the
captain of Malaca. Likewise this witness saw two
ships that they were about to send to Malaca.
The said bandahala, thereupon, went to talk with the
king. That night a Cafre blacksmith, a Christian,
one Luis, fled from Borney to the Portuguese.
He told the said captain, Pedro Lopez, that the king
of Borney had ordered that the Portuguese who were
in Borney at the arrival of the Castilian fleet should
be killed; that the king had robbed them of their
possessions, and that some sailors had fled with the
vessel. When the said captain Pedro Lopez heard
this, he was angry at the Borneans, and sent the small
boats to bring men from the galleon (for he was in
the galley), saying that he intended to enter the
river to fight the said Borneans. The next morning
the said bandahala tua, that is to say, “old
man,” came in a ship. The Borneans brought
fowls, sugar, fruits, tampo, and other things,
to sell. They brought no presents. The said
captain, Pedro Lopez, seized the said vandahala and
about thirty rowers with him, and put them in the
said galley, with the intention of keeping them prisoners.
The said vandahala asserted that they had not killed
the Portuguese, nor robbed them at all. The said
captain, Pedro Lopez, sent the said trader Quenenia
to talk to the king, and to ask him why they had killed
those Portuguese. The said king replied that he
knew of no such thing, and that the tanguilans of
the mountain had killed them. Afterward the said
captain, Pedro Lopez, said, “Who is deceiving
me in these things among these Moros?” He then
set free the Moros, and left the said trader Quenena,
in Borney with a pack containing seven or eight hundred
pieces of cloth, so that he might trade it for camphor,
wax, and tortoise-shell, and then go to Malaca with
it in one of the two ships that I said were about
to sail to Malaca. The said captain bought eight
Javanese slaves, and the king presented to him two
more, making a total of ten. Each slave cost ten
pieces of caniqui [34] which we valued at three
vardagos, each vardago being worth one
patagon, which this witness thinks is about
equivalent to two Manila tostones. Then weighing
anchor they proceeded on their way to Maluco.
The galley anchored at the river of Tabaran to look