On the said day, month, and year, aforesaid, in obedience to the order of the said governor, the oath was taken and received before God and the Blessed Mary, and on a sign of the cross, in due form of law, from Pedro Lucas, a soldier; under which obligation, when questioned, he declared what he knows, and that present occurrences are as follows.  On this day, Sunday, about four in the afternoon or so, when the flagship named “Santiago” (wherein were the said governor and other soldiers and troops) and also the other galleys and war vessels of his Majesty were sailing toward the port of the said island of Borney, this witness saw that the said flagship flew a white flag of peace on the bow of the said flagship.  And at the mouth of the said port he saw a number of ships—­in his opinion, some twenty-five or thirty in all.  When the said governor saw the said fleet, and that war was about to ensue, in order not to have war with them, but that all might be peace, he ordered the said flagship and also the other ships and vessels of the said fleet to anchor.  They anchored at a good distance from the said port, in order to give the natives of the said island to understand that the governor desired not war with them, but all peace and friendship.  This witness saw that the governor gave two letters to two Moro chiefs of Balayan, vassals of his Majesty, of the island of Lucon—­one letter in the Moro tongue, and the other in that of Borney.  In them he informed the Borneans of his reasons for coming, and that he desired not war with them, but all peace and friendship.  This witness saw the two Indians leave the said flagship and embark on a fragata of the said fleet with the said two letters, in order to deliver them to the Indians in the said war-vessels.  The governor ordered them to return with all haste, with a reply to his Lordship.  This is the extent of his knowledge and what he has seen this said day.  He affirms its truth, by the oath that he took, and has signed the same.  He says that he is thirty years old.  Upon this being read to him, he affirmed and ratified the same.

Pedro Lucas

Before me: 

Alonso Beltran, his Majesty’s notary

[Testimony is received also from three others, Juan Manuel Pimentel, Juan Ochoa, and Gaspar Perez.  That of the first is similar to the above.  That of the last contains the information that the two Moros sent with the letters “as yet have not returned nor sent a reply, except that we see that the said fleet of the Borneans still holds the mouth of the said port, and his Majesty’s fleet is anchored in the open sea and in great peril; and this witness has heard some heavy shots fired by the Borneans at his Majesty’s fleet.  It is well known, and this witness has heard the Borneans say, that the king of Borneo and his people are about to war upon the Spaniards, both by sea and by land.”  A portion of the interpreter Juan Ochoa’s testimony is as follows.  “This witness saw at the