on land, having been burned to death, or slain by arquebus bullets; more than eighty persons were taken captive; and many others were killed in the praus, as they fled up the river.  The rain expected by the Moros came when the town was quite destroyed by fire.  The loss in the town was considerable, for it was large, and carried on an extensive trade.  In the town lived forty married Chinese and twenty Japanese.  Of these some came to see the master-of-camp on board the ship, before the breaking out of hostilities, among whom was a Japanese with a Theatin cap, from which we thought him to be a Christian.  When we asked him if he was one, he answered in the affirmative, saying that his name was Pablo [Paul].  He adored an image, and asked for some beads; but people say that he was among the Moro bombardiers.

Among the prisoners were the Chinese wives of some of the Chinese who had married and settled in the town; and although it would have been justifiable to make them slaves, because their husbands had fled with the Moros, the master-of-camp was unwilling to do so, but simply handed them over to the Chinese of the ships.  One of the Chinese women wished to come with us, and we have found since that she was insane; now she is with the governor, who will send her back to her own country.  Those who saw Soliman’s house before it was burned, say that it was very large, and that it contained many valuable things, such as money, copper, iron, porcelain, blankets, wax, cotton, and wooden vats full of brandy; but everything was burned to the ground with the house.  Afterward the iron and copper furnished gain to whomsoever wished to take it, for a great quantity of it which this house and others contained, was found on the ground after the fire.  When the prisoners captured were asked why the Moros had broken the treaty of peace and friendship, they answered that the young Soliman was to blame, for he always opposed his uncle, the other chief; that he had a malicious disposition; and that it was he who gave the order to fire, and who even fired with his own hand the first shot, which struck the ship.  Next to Soliman’s house was another which was used as a store-room.  It contained much iron and copper, as well as culverins and cannon which had melted.  Some small and large cannon had just been begun.  There were the clay and wax moulds, the largest of which was for a cannon seventeen feet long, resembling a culverin.  The Indians said that the furniture alone lost in Soliman’s house was worth more than five thousand ducats.

After the burning of this town the master-of-camp waited two days in the river for some message from the Moros, but seeing that no one appeared, and that he had but few men with him to seek them inland; and that the bay and waterway was such that, in order to sail out of it, they needed the northeast wind (which was now blowing, although feebly); and that the southwest gales were coming, so that, as the interpreters affirmed,