5.  With this prize captured from the galliot, the corsair proceeded toward Manila.  At this time a soldier, Sayavedra, sergeant of Juan de Saucedo, who was in one of the neighboring villages, saw what had happened, and that the galley had been burned; and he wrote a letter to this effect to Juan de Saucedo, sending it overland by an Indian to Vigan, where Saucedo was located with one hundred men.  In a short time Juan de Saucedo saw the ships of the corsair and his armament; so he sent a virey to advise the people of Manila of what was taking place.  The ships in advance, on discovering the virey, deceived its occupants, and stood out to sea, to round a promontory, through the bay of which was coming the deceived virey.  The virey is a kind of vessel used by the natives of these islands; it has but little steadiness, and always navigates near the shore.  While this little boat was going around the bay, all the ships came upon it at once.  The occupants of the little boat had to run aground, in order to escape with their lives, and to hide in the hills.  Then they took out their weapons, and paused to see what was taking place.  The Chinese broke up the ship, but did not completely destroy it, and then continued their journey.  The soldiers again took to their vessel, and slowly wended their way to Manila, arriving there one day after St. Andrew’s Day, at noon, and after the corsair had made the first assault.  They spread the news that Juan de Saucedo was coming from Ylocos with all haste, for he had found out who Limahon was.  These soldiers landed in a hostile region, that of a certain people called Zambales; they are very much like the Chichimecos of Nueva Espana, who have no ambition higher than that of cutting off men’s heads.  They are accustomed to the use of bows and arrows.  Consequently three soldiers in a rough country could not have escaped, unless God had kept their boat from being entirely destroyed by the Sangleyes.

6.  The corsair continued his journey, and, intending to make an attack at dawn, anchored outside the bay, and sent all his small boats ashore in charge of some captains, in the early part of St. Andrew’s Eve.  They say that the corsair remained with the ships; but that in the boats there were seven hundred men, among whom were a few arquebusiers, and many pikemen, besides men armed with battle-axes. [1] They were clad in corselets which are coats lined with exceedingly thick cotton.  They had durable bamboo hats, which served as helmets; they carried cutlasses, and several daggers in their belts; and all were barefoot.  Their manner of warfare or of fighting, was to form a squadron composed of men with battle-axes, among whom were placed some arquebusiers, a few of the latter going ahead as skirmishers.  One of every ten men carried a banner, fastened to his shoulders and reaching two palms above his head.  There were other and larger banners also, so that it appeared as if some important personage was coming who served in the capacity of master-of-camp.  These, then, were the people who made the first attack.