Off the coast of the river of Mindanao, four leagues from the said river, on the fourteenth day of the month of March, one thousand five hundred and seventy-nine, the illustrious captain Grabiel de Ribera, sailing toward the said river met a small boat, and in order to take in water and ascertain their position, ordered it brought to the flagship.  When it was brought, it appeared that it contained a Boholan Indian, named Umapas, married in the said island of Mindanao.  Two of his brothers-in-law, natives of the said river, accompanied him.  Through the interpreter, Miguel Godines, they were asked whence they came and whither they were bound.  Through the said interpreter they answered that they were bound for the city of Manila, at the order of Limansacay, king of Mindanao; and that they were taking to his Lordship, the governor, two gold-emblazoned daggers, and two great loaves of wax.  Furthermore, the said king ordered them to collect five taes of gold owed him by some Indians.  All this, they said, was to be given to the said governor in token of recognition and peace, which they were going, in the name of the said king Limansacay, to ask from the said governor.  Upon hearing this, the said captain informed the above-named persons that his Grace was going in the name of his Majesty and by order of his Lordship, in his royal name, to pacify all that region, and to make peace with all the natives thereof.

Therefore his Grace took them with him to the very mouth of the said river, and from there despatched the two brothers-in-law of the said Umapas, who are natives of the said river, in order that they might advise the said Limansacay, king of the said river, that his Grace was commissioned by the said governor to treat with him for peace and alliance, which his father Asututan, now defunct, had requested from King Don Ffelipe, our sovereign.  In consideration of Umapas’s fear and premonition that the king would behead him if he returned, his Grace despatched the two said brothers-in-law.  He ordered them to tell Limasancay, king of the said river, when they reached his presence, of the good resolution that his father had taken, and his great zeal in making peace with his Majesty, and with the governor in his royal name; that his Grace was ready and prepared to receive them as vassals of his Majesty, in whose royal name he was come; and that the king would take them under his royal crown and give them his royal aid.  They would be protected and aided on every occasion that might arise, and whenever they needed it.  In order to ascertain what were King Limasancay’s purposes, and what he intended to do, his Grace would await a reply to it all, for one natural day [i.e., twenty-four hours], anchored at the mouth of the said river of Mindanao.  He ordered all the above to be set down in writing, that it might stand in the records, and affixed thereto his signature.

Grabiel de Ribera Miguel Godines