After making this treaty and securing this result (which, of a truth, your Lordship may regard as most felicitous and of great importance, and as the beginning of much good), I retired to my fleet.  Next day the chiefs came to the river-bank, and I made them friends with Danganlibor and Lumaquan, and they embraced each other.  Some of them boarded the galleys, and began thus to lose their fear gradually.  Already some of the chiefs have started to go to their villages, and have collected their people in order to settle them.  I hope, God willing, that everything will assume a settled and quiet condition.  And albeit that my toil and my service rendered to your Lordship in this affair do not equal my desire, still your Lordship can represent it to his Majesty as one of the greatest that have been rendered in these islands.  I am not going to leave them; so, when any greater opportunity arises, your Lordship may entrust it to me.  I assert that if this occasion had not had the almost unexpected favorable ending, and if our Lord had not evidently been pleased to lend His aid, your Lordship would suffer great anxiety and all the islands would be in great straits; for, with the alliance that they had formed with Terrenate, there would be no safety in the entire district.

[The victorious troops were in the greatest need.  There were many messes of four or five with only one shirt among them, which they wore by turns.  There was only ammunition enough for two hours.  There was only rice enough to allow fifteen gantas a month to Spaniards and ten to Indians; and even this ration would only last till the end of August.  They had no meat or fish.  Ronquillo had “set a dragnet,” and taken the rice of all the people within reach, beginning with himself.  Then he sent out officers in fragatas to search for rice, giving them four hundred pesos for the purpose, and directing them to pay as long as the money lasted, and then to take provisions in any way in which they could get them.  They were, if necessary, to use force to obtain supplies from encomenderos or Indians, for their pay giving them orders on the charges of the land (situado), or the tribute, or to be paid when possible.  As for the other parts of the island, the very chiefs were perishing of hunger, because of the war, and came daily to beg for rice.  This they received, in order that they might be bound to the Spaniards.  Accordingly Ronquillo asks for assistance and supplies from Manila until the stress should be over in Mindanao.  He gives honorable mention to his officers and troops, many of whom were wounded.  He looks forward to great difficulties as soon as any attempt shall be made to collect tributes.  The leading chiefs collect tribute from their vassals; and the only demand hitherto has been for open friendship and the recognition of the sovereignty of Spain.  If these men—­Raxa Mura, Sala, Silonga, and Lumaquan—­are now told that they must not collect tribute, but that all the tribute must