was despatched with more than four hundred quintals of cinnamon for your Majesty, besides small wares and other articles as specimens, which would give no little satisfaction in that land.  There arrived at this port of Cubu on the eighteenth of September of that year a small vessel of Portuguese, whose captain was Antonio Rrumbo de Acosta, a person who had already come, the year before, to this port with letters from the Captain-general Gonzalo Pereyra.  He said that the captain-general was coming with, all his fleet to see the governor [of the Philippines] and provide him with necessaries, and that having been separated from his fleet, he [Acosta] came to seek shelter at this port, as he had knowledge of it, whence he would return immediately to seek the fleet.  He did so, having first been well received by the governor [Legazpi] and this whole colony.  On the twenty-eighth of that same month, he came back to this port with letters from the captain-general to the governor, saying that the former was very near the port.  The governor answered his letters, and despatched them; and on the thirtieth of the same month, the captain-general entered the port with a heavy fleet of Portuguese.  They came with nine sail—­four ships of deep draught and five galleys and fustas, without counting other small vessels which the natives of Maluco use for the service of the larger boats.  They remained in this port certain days, peacefully, during which the captain-general and the governor saw each other twice—­once on land and the other time on sea.  At the last visit, the Portuguese stated that he would serve summons upon us, which he at once proceeded to do.  On the fourteenth of October he sent the first summons, which the governor answered.  The Portuguese made answer to this reply and after that made his third demand; and on the same day when he did this, he came to blows with us, in which nothing was gained.  He surrounded us at the entrances of this port (of which there are two, one to the east and the other to the west).  He always endeavored to make war on us from the outside, in order to guarantee his own safety as much as possible.  Many people were seen from this camp, and he captured many more, without it happening that they could take or kill any of us.  He granted life to a few soldiers and boys that fled from this camp and went to his fleet.  During the time of this blockade, the flagship was burned because it was of no use, and so that the nails it contained might serve for a ship that was being made.  At this time came the news that the capitana “San Pablo” had been lost in the Ladrones during a storm, and while the ship was moored.  All the people had escaped and came to these Filipinas islands in a bark which they made from a small boat.  It was a marvelous thing that one hundred and thirty-two people should come in it as they did.  May God pardon whomsoever did us such harm in losing this ship in this manner.  The Portuguese had notice