possible; and thus he did.  Having come in this manner and having grounded his boats upon a beach close to the enemy, when these latter saw the determination of the Spaniards, and that they would not depart under any circumstances until they had conquered them, they therefore determined to make peace and become friends.  To this end the leaders came out of the fort and made peace and friendship with the captain, becoming good friends, which they are up to the present time.  They gave him a hundred tall [taels] of gold, which he divided among his soldiers.  From there the captain went to a rock belonging to another small islet very near to that of Loban, and lying in the sea at a very short distance from the said islet.  The natives who lived in that island had retired to this rock to the number of about three hundred warriors.  The captain, having arrived on the same day at about ten o’clock, went around the rock, and we captured a small boat containing thirty men.  Many volleys from the arquebuses were fired at them during this day; and on the following morning the soldiers began to make ladders to scale the rock—­whose occupants, when they saw the determination of the Spaniards, came to terms of peace and friendship, giving another hundred tall of gold, following the example of those of the other fort, who had been left good friends.  The captain returned with all of us who were with him to the island of Panay, where the governor was with the master-of-camp, who had returned from another expedition made with his men to an island called Acuyo.  Thereupon the question was discussed of sending men jto explore the island of Luzon; and it was agreed that the master-of-camp and captain Juan de Sauzedo should set out upon this expedition with a hundred soldiers.

The necessary preparations having been made for this expedition, the master-of-camp and the said captain embarked in two of our small ships, with three large pieces of artillery, and accompanied by fourteen or, fifteen ships of the Pintados Indians, our friends, who in their own language are called Viseys.  They sailed out of the river of Panay in the year of seventy, above mentioned, on the third of May, the day of Sancta Cruz.  I did not take part in this expedition but shall describe literally everything which occurred in it.  I have drawn my information from the others who participated in it, and more especially from two of my associates, both of whom went on this expedition, and who are men of great reliability—­an advantage, as I have before mentioned.  The master-of-camp arrived at the island of Mindoro, the village and port of which had the reputation of being very great and very strong, but which proved to be an exaggeration, for the village is small, containing only about three or four hundred inhabitants.  The master-of-camp having arrived, as I have said, at that port, the Indians were drawn up on a declivity before the village, and made signs that they intended to prevent the entrance