The Philippine Islands, 1493-1803 — Volume 04 of 55 eBook

This eBook from the Gutenberg Project consists of approximately 298 pages of information about The Philippine Islands, 1493-1803 — Volume 04 of 55.

The Philippine Islands, 1493-1803 — Volume 04 of 55 eBook

This eBook from the Gutenberg Project consists of approximately 298 pages of information about The Philippine Islands, 1493-1803 — Volume 04 of 55.
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
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