8.  After the flight of the Chinese, a Chinese merchant who was in the city, Sinsay by name, called upon the governor.  He told him the corsair’s name, who he was, and his power.  He also stated that he was a pirate, and not sent by order of his king; and that without doubt he would return in three days.  He advised the Spaniards to fortify themselves, and to remove the straw from the roofs of your Majesty’s houses, so that they could not be fired—­advice which was acted upon.

9.  The corsair Limahon rebuked his captains, and publicly manifested his disgust at their defeat.  Then he summoned his soldiers, paid them all, and made them great promises.  They agreed to rest one day and to return on the morning of the third day, when he would accompany them personally—­which he did, with his entire fleet.

10.  It seems that Guido Lavezares, on that day, ordered that two of the principal Moros be arrested and imprisoned, saying that, by means of them, the Moros would supply him with food.  Thereupon the Moros rebelled, and the prisoners were placed, bareheaded, in the stocks.  This was the occasion of a suit brought against one Osorio, the constable, in whose house was the prison.  He claims that he was not guilty of the offense, saying that one Sancho Ortiz de Agurto, sergeant of Captain Velasquez, killed them, or ordered certain slaves to kill them.  The suit was decided accordingly.

11.  The first attack was made on the day of St. Andrew the Apostle.  On Tuesday, the last of September [2] of the year seventy-four, the captains began the fortifications, making with boards, stakes, and boxes and barrels filled with sand, a palisade from the river to the sea.  Although it was the best they could build, it was weak enough.  The next day, Wednesday, at noon the three soldiers came to warn the people, as I have previously mentioned.  At nightfall of this day arrived Juan de Saucedo.  As before stated, he had been stationed in Ylocos with fifty soldiers.  He came almost within sight of the Chinese fleet, and upon entering the bay, took the left-hand side, leaving the right side of the port to the Chinese.  The people were overjoyed to see him and his soldiers, and that night they assisted in the work of the fortifications.  Very early upon the next day (Thursday) the Chinese advanced in martial array, as if determined upon revenge.  At four o’clock the whole fleet appeared in front of the city, in the form of a great crescent, so that they might be there before daybreak; and three salutes were fired from all the guns of the whole fleet.  Then at dawn they lowered the small boats, finally disembarking near the house of the master-of-camp, which they had burned.  The chief landed, but it is reported that he did not fight, or leave, that place, where he remained seated in a chair.  He divided his soldiers there—­numbering, it is said, about one thousand men—­into two bodies.  Part of them he sent through the principal street of the city, and the others along the beach.  The latter took the same route as those who arrived on the first day.  Besides these two squadrons, other men were sent along the river-bank.