articles, by a native who was on his vessel.  The general learned from hostages aboard his ship the names of many of the islands.  On the ninth of March the fleet set sail for Mazagua, being guided by one of these hostages.  Failing to meet here the hoped-for friendship, they determined to go to the island of Camiguinin, [56] first setting free all the hostages, giving them back their canoe, provisioning it for three days, and giving many presents of clothes to them, in order by this liberality to contract a lasting friendship.  On the eleventh of March the coast of this island was reached.  This island “is very thickly wooded.”  The natives, as usual, fled.  On the fourteenth the fleet set sail for Butuan in Mindanao, but owing to contrary winds, they were not able to sail that day beyond Bohol.  The patache “San Juan” was despatched to Butuan from this place, to try to make peace with its king and the people; and the captain of this vessel was ordered to treat well any junks he might meet from “China or Borneo, and other parts.”  The Malayan interpreter, Geronimo Pacheco, was sent in this vessel, and they were ordered to obtain as much information as possible in regard to trade.  The time given them for this expedition was twenty-five days.  News being received that a large sail had been seen, the master-of-camp was sent in a small boat to investigate.  Two days later he returned, reporting that the junk was from Borneo, and that he had fought with it “for it would not listen to peace.”  In the end the junk surrendered, and was brought in a prisoner; but the enemy “had killed a good soldier with a lance-thrust through the throat,” and had wounded twenty more.  The men of the junk were Moros, and they had fought most valiantly, and “were determined to die.”  Legazpi gave the Moros their liberty, whereat they expressed many thanks; he gathered as much information as possible from them in regard to the islands and peoples of these regions.  “The Moros told him that they carried iron and tin from Borney, and from China porcelain, bells made of copper according to their manner, benzoin, and painted tapestry; from India pans and tempered iron pots.”  Among the captured Moros was the pilot, “a most experienced man who had much knowledge, not only of matters concerning these Filipinas Islands, but of those of Maluco, Borney, Malaca, Jaba, India, and China, where he had had much experience in navigation and trade.”  The Moros being shown the articles of trade brought by the fleet, advised them to go to Borneo, Siam, Patan, or Malaca, where they could easily trade them, but “although we wandered about these islands for ten years, we could not dispose of so many silks, cloths, and linens.”  “This Moro told the general that two junks from Luzon were in Butuan, trading gold, wax, and slaves....  He said that the island of Luzon is farther north than Borney.”  The Castilians learn that the hostility and fear of the natives of these islands is the result of a marauding expedition conducted