One of the vessels had been badly damaged in a storm before reaching the island named Matalotes.  At Mazaua Bay they began first to experience famine and sickness.  As food was refused them on the island of Sarrangan, and their men attacked, they determined to take it by force.  The island was soon gained, and “Rui-Lopez labored with that people with entreaties and gifts to make friendship, and to induce them to return to their houses, but in vain.”  Then began the hunt for food in various places, but much opposition from the natives was encountered.  Santisteban says “If I should try to write, to your lordship in detail of the hunger, need, hardships, disease, and the deaths that we suffered in Sarragan, I would fill a book ...  In that island we found a little rice and sago, a few hens and hogs, and three deer.  This was eaten in a few days, together with what remained of the ship food.  A number of cocoa-palms were discovered; and because hunger cannot suffer delay, the buds which are the shoots of the palms were eaten.  There were some figs and other fruits.  Finally we ate all the dogs, cats, and rats we could find, besides horrid grubs and unknown plants, which all together caused the deaths, and much of the prevalent disease.  And especially they ate large numbers of a certain large variety of gray lizard, which emits considerable glow; very few who ate them are living.  Land crabs also were eaten which caused some to go mad for a day after partaking of them, especially if they had eaten the vitals.  At the end of seven months, the hunger that had caused us to go to Sarragan withdrew us thence.”  The booty of the island was but little, for the natives had carried away and hidden the greater part of their possessions.  The vessel of Villalobos and two small brigs put out from this place of famine to go to the upper islands, the other vessels having been sent on ahead on various commissions.  After sailing for forty leagues, the large vessel was unable to advance farther, and put in at a bay called Sacayan [Cagayan], to await good weather, while the two small vessels went on ahead [because according to Alvarado they could navigate nearer the shore] in search of food.  Troubles from the natives still pursued these smaller vessels.  At one part of Mindanao they tried to secure food.  Fourteen of the crew were left ashore, ten of whom were killed.  The two brigs anchored at Mindanao, remaining there for more than fifty days, awaiting the arrival of the ship and galley.  From this place they went to Tandaya, [28] where they were well received by the natives.  Here the sick men were left, while the others went in search of the rest of their men, but failed to find them where they had been left.  A letter was found which directed the searchers to the “islands of Talao, which are forty leagues south of Maluco.”  Returning to Tandaya, it was found that the men left there had been taken off by the “Sant Juan.”  Here Santisteban and his party remained for two months,