until the king of Tidore sent in quest of Villalobos.  A description of these people follows.  Finally Villalobos, forced to do so by hunger, cast anchor in Portuguese possessions.  Negotiations with the Portuguese followed.  The “Sant Juan” was despatched to New Spain May 16, 1545, but it was unable to make the journey and returned within five months.  Finally the remnants of the expedition were taken in Portuguese vessels to Ambon [Amboina], where Villalobos died; and thence to Malacca, where only one hundred and seventeen of the three hundred and seventy who left New Spain arrived, thirty remaining in Maluco.  Santisteban justifies Villalobos, saying “Your lordship will bear in mind your promise to Ruy Lopez ... to be a father to his children.  In the judgment of certain men, Ruy Lopez performed no services for your lordship, for which his children deserve recompense.  I know most certainly that, in the judgment of God and of those who regard his works without passion, he did everything possible for the service of your lordship, and that he grieved more over not having fulfilled exactly your lordship’s design than over all the other losses, sorrows, and persecutions that he endured.” (Col. doc. ined.  Amer. y Oceania, tomo xiv, pp. 151-165.)

Garcia Descalante Alvarado, who accompanied Villalobos, left an account of the expedition, dated Lisbon, August 7, 1548, and addressed to the viceroy of New Spain; it deals more fully with the later adventures of the expedition.  A brief synopsis follows.  The fleet left the port of Joan Gallego [Navidad] on All Saints’ Day, 1542.  They passed, at a distance of one hundred and eighty leagues, two uninhabited islands which they named Santo Thomas [San Alberto] [29] and Anublada, or “Cloud Island” [Isla del Socorro]; and eighty leagues farther another island, Roca Partida or “Divided Rock” [Santa Rosa].  After sailing for sixty-two days they came to a “lowlying, densely-wooded archipelago,” which they named the Coral Archipelago, anchoring at one of the islands, Santisteban [San Estevan].  The next islands they named Los Jardines, or “The Gardens,” from their luxuriant foliage.  January 23, 1543, they passed a small island, whose inhabitants hailed them in good Castilian, saying “Buenos dias, matalotes” [30] [meaning to say “Good morning, sailors"], for which the island was named Matalotes.  The next island passed they named Arrecifes or Reefs, the significance of which is apparent.  February 2, they anchored in a beautiful bay which they called Malaga [Baganga] and the island Cesarea Karoli [Mindanao], “which the pilots, who afterwards sailed around it, declared to have a circuit of three hundred and fifty leagues.”  After a month’s residence on the island, they left in search of the island of Mazagua, but contrary weather forced them to anchor at an island named Sarrangar and by them called Antonio, [31] where they had trouble with the natives, who were attacked by the Castilians under command of Alvarado.  The people defended themselves