did, he would persecute and destroy them.  Since he prevents this, and refuses to make friendship, as has been required of him, and prevents others from doing so, his Grace, as above stated, will proceed against the said Limasancay by all possible ways and methods, as against a man who prevents the chiefs of the said river from making peace and rendering obedience to his Majesty as they wish:  his Grace will also proceed against all his paniaguados, and against all those who refuse peace and obedience to his Majesty.  The said Sicurey having heard all the above declaration, and other words to the same effect, replied that he would repeat it all to the said Limasancay, and would return within three days.  Because the said village of Mindanao did not contain food for the soldiers, the captain told the said Sicurey that he would await him and his reply in Tampaca, six leagues up the river above the said village of Mindanao.  In order that this might appear in the records, I attest and certify the same, which took place before me.  Witnesses, Pedro de Eseguera and Ensign Arteaga.

Grabiel de Ribera

Before me: 

Diego Lopez Carreno, notary of the fleet

At the river and village of Mindanao, on the seventeenth day of the month of March, one thousand five hundred and seventy-nine, after the illustrious captain, Grabiel Ribera, had waited three days at his anchorage for Limasancay to come, to make peace as he had requested of him; and seeing that he did not come and that food was becoming scarce, and, the said village being depopulated, he could find no food there; and because his Grace had been told by natives of the said river that the said Limasancay was retiring up river to one of his villages, to make a fort there for his defense; and seeing that the king was dealing treacherously, in order to gain time to build the said fort:  in order to avoid the possible great danger in allowing the said Limasancay to fortify himself, and likewise because he had heard that the village of Tapaca, about four leagues up the river, contained food, from which the fleet (some vessels of which were in want) might be reprovisioned; to look for and collect certain pieces of artillery which were said to be in the said village, and which were reported to have belonged to the lost Portuguese galley—­his Grace on this said day, ascended the river to the said village, for the causes and reasons above stated.  I attest the same.  Witnesses, Pedro de Eseguera, Ensign Melchor de Torres, and Ensign Arteaga.

Grabiel de Ribera

Before me: 

Diego Lopez Carreno, notary of the fleet