After sailing eleven days more with good weather, we finally came in sight of Filippinas, where we finished our voyage.  According to the experiments and opinions of the pilots, we covered more than two thousand leagues from Puerto de la Navidad to this island, although I have heard that they were deceived as to the distance.  On the afternoon of the same day in which we came to this land, we cast anchor in a beautiful bay, called Cibabao, and there we remained seven or eight days.  Meanwhile we sent two boats, one south and the other north (for this island is located north and south) to see whether they could find some good port or river.  One of them returned minus a gentleman of my company, called Francesco Gomez, and with the report that, for ten leagues north, they had found neither port nor river.  The gentleman was killed by some Indians, after he disembarked to make blood-friendship with them, a ceremony that is considered inviolable.  This is observed in this manner:  one from each party must draw two or three drops of blood from his arm or breast and mix them, in the same cup, with water or wine.  Then the mixture must be divided equally between two cups, and neither person may depart until both cups are alike drained.  While this man was about to bleed himself, one of the natives pierced his breast from one side with a lance.  The weapons generally used throughout the Filipinas are cutlasses and daggers; lances with iron points, one and one-half palms in length; lenguados, [94] enclosed in cloth sheaths, and a few bows and arrows.  Whenever the natives leave their houses, even if it is only to go to the house of a neighbor, they carry these weapons; for they are always on the alert, and are mistrustful of one another.

While we were in this bay, Indians and chiefs came in several boats, displaying prominently a white flag at the bow of one of them.  Another flag was raised on the stern of the flagship as a sign that they could approach.  These people wear clothes, but they go barefooted.  Their dress is made of cotton or of a kind of grass resembling raw silk.  We spoke to them and asked them for food.  They are a crafty and treacherous race, and understand everything.  The best present which they gave me was a sucking pig, and a cheese of which, unless a miracle accompanied it, it was impossible for all in the fleet to partake.  On the occasion of the death of the gentleman whom they killed, the natives scattered themselves through the island.  They are naturally of a cowardly disposition, and distrustful, and if one has treated them ill, they will never come back.  They possess, in common with all these islands, swine, goats, hens of Castile, rice, millet, and in addition a great variety of excellent fruit.  The people wear gold earrings, bracelets, and necklets.  Wherever we went we found a great display of these articles.  Although people say that there are many mines and much pure gold, yet the natives do not extract it until the very day they need it; and, even then, they take only the amount necessary for their use, thus making the earth their purse.