by Portuguese, who had represented themselves to be Castilians. [57] With the aid of the Moro pilot peace and friendship were made with one of the chief men of the island of Bohol; and now for the first time food was received in any quantity, many sardines especially being brought by the natives.  Legazpi despatched one of the small boats to Cebu in order to make friendship and peace with its inhabitants, and to gather all possible information for the relation he was to send back to New Spain.  They were guided by the Moro, who acted in the capacity of interpreter, as he knew the language of the natives.  A negro “who had been in India and Malaca, and knew the Malay tongue” acted as interpreter between this pilot and the Spaniards.  “The Borneans said that the Indians had two Spaniards, and that sometime ago they had given one of them to Bornean merchants; they did not know whether they had the other yet, or what had been done with him.  The Portuguese had ransomed the one taken by the Borneans and had taken him to Malaca.”  As the men sent to Cebu did not return within the time appointed by Legazpi—­they had been provisioned for but one week—­a canoe of natives, who offered themselves, was sent to look for them.  Meanwhile the “San Juan,” which had been despatched to Butuan, returned without having accomplished the full object of its mission, namely, to procure information regarding cinnamon.  The captain reported having “found at the port of Botuan two Moro junks from Luzon,” with which they traded for gold and wax.  The soldiers, hearing that the Moros had much gold in their junks, were insistent that they should seize them, alleging as an excuse the deceit practiced by the Moros in their trading.  The captain would not permit this, and in order to avoid a collision with the Moros returned to the fleet, leaving part of his duty unaccomplished, for which Legazpi reprimanded him severely.  The general, calling a council of his officers and others, consulted with them as to the advisability of colonizing one of the islands.  All but the religious were unanimous that a settlement should be made on one of them, but the latter did not care “to deliberate upon this.” [58] Questioned as to what island they preferred, if Legazpi should order a settlement made, they signified as their choice the island of Cabalian, where although there was no port, a settlement could be made in the interior, as food was abundant there, and the return vessel to Spain could be easily provisioned.  The unanimous opinion was that the “San Pedro” should return with news of the expedition to New Spain, as it was a lighter and better vessel than the “San Pablo.”  Nine days after their departure the canoe returned without news of the Spaniards sent to Cebu, which caused Legazpi great anxiety.  That same night, however, these men returned alive and well, but the Moro pilot had been treacherously killed by some natives, while bathing in a river of the island of Negros.  They had not anchored at Cebu, because