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.
for food.  They bought there swine and fowls, receiving five fowls for one piece of caniqui.  From there they sailed near a large island, called by them island of Xordan.  There a storm with a vendabal struck them and destroyed the said galley, which was old.  It sprang a leak under the keel, and was driven upon some rocks near Cabite, at an island near Canboanga.  There the said galley was lost with all its food, artillery, and ammunition.  Five Portuguese were drowned, and two others were killed by the Moros of that land.  All the Cafres and slaves who were chained were drowned.  About forty Portuguese and twelve Cafres escaped.  They scattered into different parties, so that the natives should not kill them.  This witness fell into the power of some natives of Camboanga, who made him prisoner.  A Spaniard brought this witness and others recently, when they came with his Majesty’s spice.  However, this witness did not see what became of the said Spaniards, nor what became of the galleon, except that he heard that the galleon collected the men in its small boats and finished its voyage, by taking another tack, as he heard from the natives of Camboanga.  Therefore this witness never saw the said galleon again.  He heard also that the said galleon had broken its mainmast.  This is what he knows, and his deposition.  It is the truth, on the oath that he took.  He affirmed and ratified it.  When this witness was asked if he had been in Maluco, and requested to tell what he knew of matters there, and why so many Portuguese should go there, he declared that he had heard it stated publicly and openly in Yndia and in Malaca, and that he heard Diego de Sanbucho, a noble inhabitant of Malaca, now there, say that the fortress of Maluco, which the Portuguese held in Terrenate, was lost to them three years ago.  For after the death of Gonzalo Pereyra, who had gone with the Portuguese to fight at Cubu, and who had died at Maluco after his return there, the noble above named, Diego de Sanbucho, was captain of Maluco.  He found that certain of the married men had gone to live at Anbon and others to Malaca, and that they had taken all their cattle and artillery with them in two galliots, which they now have at Anbon.  The cause of the loss of the said Maluco was the revolt of the said natives and a war because a Portuguese had killed their king.  Immediately the people revolted, and besieged the Portuguese.  They died from hunger, until the survivors abandoned the fort, going to Anbon, as I have said; only two Dominican fathers remained.  The said inhabitants of Maluco refused to give cloves to the Portuguese, and sold them to the Javanese, who in turn sold them at Malaca.  The only cloves brought were those of Anbon, and only one ship-load at that.  The Portuguese go to Anbon by way of Jaba, across from Borney, since Maluco was lost; the present fleet came by way of Borney.  On account of these troubles, it is sailing straight for Maluco, in order to construct
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