truly what he knew and had seen, and the injuries and ill-treatment inflicted upon him and the others.  He said that what he knows and what occurred is the following.  As before declared, this witness is one of the six Moros whom the said Simagat and Simagachina took with them when they carried the letters to the king of Borney at the order of his Lordship.  When they reached the fleet of the king of Borney, stationed in the port of an islet to forbid the entrance there of the Spaniards, and when the said Borneans saw them, these envoys were seized and each one placed in a separate galley—­except this witness and one other Moro, one Sungayan, who were imprisoned together and put in fetters under the deck.  This witness does not know what was done with the others.  The next morning they took this witness and his above-mentioned companion and led them before a captain, whose name he does not know.  This captain ordered them to be freed and food to be given them.  Then he ordered them to be placed in the said galley without this witness seeing any of the others who had gone with them.  Because he was below in the said galley, this witness did not see the fight between the said Moros and Spaniards, except that the vessels of the said Borneans took flight, and that the galley in which this witness was fled up the river of Borney, until its captain and crew landed.  Taking this witness and his companion with them, they marched inland one and one-half days, without this witness knowing whither they were taking them.  Finally, for fear of the said Borneans, they hid themselves; for the said Borneans were fleeing across country.  This witness and his said companion fled and returned, until they found a small boat in which they embarked to look for the Spaniards (keeping hidden in order not to meet any Borneans), until they met certain Spanish vessels, which they accompanied to the village, where the governor and Spaniards now are.  Here they found alive the said Simagat, who told them how he had been ill-treated, his gold taken from him, and himself threatened with death; and that the said Borneans had killed the said Simagachina.  This witness is convinced of his death, for he has never appeared nor have they had any news of him.  As he does not understand the language of Borney, he cannot tell what passed among the said Borneans, when he was captured; he knows this and naught else.

And he declares it true, and affirms and ratifies the same.  He is about twenty-five years of age.  He did not sign the above, but the interpreter Juan Ochoa Ttabudo, did so.

Before me: 

Alonso Beltran, his Majesty’s notary

[The deposition of the above native’s companion follows.  It is of similar tenor to the above.]