which he does not remember, except that they threatened him that, if he did not tell the truth, they would kill him, and whether the said letter was witchcraft.  Upon this witness asserting that he had told the truth, they took him to the prison and thrust both his feet in the stocks, put a chain about his neck, bound his hands, and set a Moro named Tumanpate to guard him.  While in this condition, a Moro named Haguandatan entered the said prison, drew a Moro dagger three palms long, and said to him:  “Have no fear.  I killed Magachina thus, and gave him a dagger-thrust near the neck, from which he died.”  He was a slave of the king and turned to go, saying that he was going back to the sea and the fleet to fight with the Castilians.  Then many other Moros came in to kill him, but the jailer forbade it and would not allow them to kill him.  Afterward, about nightfall, he heard many shouts and outcries from the said river; and, upon his asking the said jailer what it meant, the latter told him that the Bornean fleet was fleeing from the Spaniards.  Thereupon this witness asked that he be not killed, and said that he would give him money.  Accordingly, at night the jailer took him from the said prison to a house of his up the river and told him that the king of Borney and many Indians had fled up the river; and that he should write a note, so that his relative should pay his ransom.  While here, his relative aforesaid, named Siandi, came and gave him a culverin [24] of three quintals weight, with other Spaniards—­he alone remaining, for the other man, his relative, turned back, leaving this witness in the power of the Spaniards.  Likewise this witness declared that when they took him to the river of Borney, he met on the way a son of the said king of Borney who was going to fight with the said fleet.  This man told him where he was going, and how the said letters had come to his father; and thus let him go.  And this is the extent of his knowledge, and of those events.  It is the truth.  Having read it to him and given him to understand it, he affirmed and ratified it.  He is about thirty years old.  He did not sign it, but the said interpreter did.  He said it is known that the Borneans killed his companion, the said Simagachina.

Juan Ochoa Ttabudo

Before me: 

Alonso Beltran, his Majesty’s notary

And after the above events, on the same day, month, and year, above-mentioned, the said governor in the said flagship and with the other galleys and small ships in his convoy, entered the bar of the said river of Borney and came to the village, where it was reported that the said king of Borney resided; where also were the fragatas of his Majesty and other vessels that had entered the port, in pursuit of the said Borneans.  And having arrived at the said village with certain soldiers and troops, the governor entered its chamber, and it remained for him to give two taes of gold and four slaves.  Then the prisoner was released.