(This said letter was translated, and sent in the form and manner abovesaid, witnesses being Luis Briceno, Alonso Locano, Bartolome Tapia, and other persons.  I, the above-named notary, attest the same, which is drawn in the said galley in the said port, on the twenty-third day of the month of March, one thousand five hundred and seventy-nine.

I attest it: 

Manuel de Caceres, notary

In the said port, on the said day, the twenty-third of March, of the said year, the Indians Sipopot and Esin returned before the said captain and in their keeping were the said two caracoas.  They anchored near by, and stated, through the said interpreters, that the said king declared that he would come next day to confer with the said captain.  He would not come to his fleet, however, but on the coast of this said island, where each one would land with five or ten men, an equal number of Borneans and of Spaniards.  They would treat for peace and of whatever else was fitting.  The said Spaniards should not come in coats-of-mail, since they were to treat of peace.  The said captain answered that he would be very glad to meet him as he proposed, and that he should come next morning.  And if he did not come that day, then he would know that his reasons were only pretense, and that he was putting him off with words.  Thereupon he sent the said Indians together with those who took the letter above set forth; and I, the said notary, testified thereto.  Witnesses were Pablo Granado, Andres de la Tubilla, Alonso Lozano, and many others.

Don Juan Arce

I certify thereto: 

Manuel de Caceres, notary

And after all the above events in the said port of Mohala, in the said galley “Espiritu Santo,” on the twenty-fifth day of the month of March, one thousand five hundred and seventy-nine, the illustrious Captain Don Juan Arce summoned to his presence Ensign Francisco Rodriguez, Ensign Salvador de Sequera, Ensign Pedro de Salasar, and Sergeants Bartolome de Tapia, Cristoval de Arqueta, Antonio Canedo, Francisco de Ribera, Melchior de Villanueva, Alonso Locano, Juan de Chavarria, Luis Briceno, Cristoval Xuares, Baltasar de Bustamente, Juan de la Feria, Juan de Yepes, and Antonio Sanchez, for this purpose having ordered the rally sounded by trumpet.  When these had come and with them the other persons and soldiers whom he wished to be present, the said captain took the instructions for this expedition given him by the very illustrious Doctor Francisco de Sande, governor and captain-general for his Majesty in these Western Islands, and auditor of his royal Audiencia of Mexico, and ordered it to be read publicly in the presence of the above-named persons.  When it had been read and heard publicly by all, the said captain told them his reason for summoning them together to hear the said instructions—­namely, that they might know that King Soltan had broken his word given two or three days previously.  He said that he would