by Juan Rodriguez de Norvega) who was a native of the town of Cayut, of Tome de la Ysla’s encomienda, received five wounds from other natives of the said river of Mindanao who were at the said town—­one in the abdomen, which caused his intestines to protrude, and the rest in his arms and thighs.  The natives of the said river and village inflicted these wounds on the said Indian treacherously, giving him some buyo, and while he was reaching for it, wounding him.  He died as a result and was buried in the said village.  Although this injury was inflicted on us, the captain, because he was awaiting the said Limasancay, for the said peace, ordered all the soldiers and the other Indians of the fleet not to harm the natives of the said village, until it was seen what the said Limasancay would do regarding the agreement which he had made with the said captain.  In order that this, as well as the death of the said Indian and the wounds he had received, might be evident, the said captain requested me to give him the present writing as certification and attestation in the manner above stated.  Witnesses, Ensign Melchor de Torres, Pedro de Esequera, and Diego de Artiaga Gamboa.

Graviel de Ribera

Before me: 

Diego Lopez Carreno, notary of the fleet

In the river and village called Mindanao, on the sixteenth of the month of March, one thousand five hundred and seventy-nine, the fleet being anchored at the entrance of the said village, wherein it is said Limasancay, petty king of the said river, usually lives and resides, at about three o’clock or so in the afternoon, in the presence of me, the notary, and the witnesses hereunto subscribed—­the illustrious captain, Grabiel de Ribera, being in his flagship—­it appears that Sicurey summoned him from the other side of the river.  The said captain had sent him, one or two days previously, to summon the said Limasancay.  To ascertain the reply of the above king and what the said Sicurey asked from him, his Grace, accompanied by me, the present notary and the witnesses, went to an uninhabited house in the said village and ascended to its top, in order to be able to see and talk with the said Sicurey—­who as above stated was on the other side of the river with certain Indians who came with him.  Through the interpreter whom his Grace carried he ordered the said Sicurey to be interrogated concerning the reply that he brought to what the said captain had sent him to tell his cousin Limasancay; and the said captain told Sicurey that he should come from the other side of the river in order that he might talk with him, and ascertain what message the said Limasancay sent, what was the latter’s intention and purpose, and whether he desired to make the said peace that he had requested in his Majesty’s name.  To all of this the said Sicurey answered, without coming to his Grace, that he had talked to his cousin, the said Limasancay, who was three days’ journey up the river from where the said captain was