[15] According to Morga, this king was named Prauncar (Phra Uncar) Langara; and his ambassador was Diego Belloso (Veloso), a Portuguese.  On returning to Cambodia with this letter to its king, the envoy found that country conquered by the Siamese.  He was captured by them and carried, with the presents that he bore from Dasmarinas, to Siam.  Later, he aided in the restoration of the exiled royal family of Cambodia to power; and for these services a province was given to him.  See Morga’s Sucesos (Hakluyt Soc. trans., London, 1878), pp. 44—­52.

[16] Regarding Dasmarinas’s death, see note 44, Vol.  VIII.  He was succeeded by his son, Luis Perez, the writer of this letter; he acted as governor until the summer of 1596.

[17] Belloso secured aid from Luis Perez Dasmarinas for the exiled king of Cambodia; but Morga says (p. 46) that this was done against his advice and that of other leading officers.

[18] Francisco Ortega (thus Perez; but de Ortega in the MSS. which we follow) made profession in the Augustinian order, at Toledo—­in 1564, according to Perez, but various allusions in this document render 1554 a more satisfactory date.  Two years later he went to Mexico, and thence (about 1570) to the Philippines.  In 1575, when he was a missionary in Mindoro, he barely escaped death at the hands of the natives, and was then appointed prior of the convent of Manila.  In 1580 he went to Spain as commissary for the Philippine province of the order; and ten years afterward returned to the Philippines with a considerable body of missionaries.  In 1597 Ortega was transferred to Mexico, where he died in 1601.

[19] In MS. dos (two); evidently an error for doce (twelve).

[20] In the original, las galeras que estan la Havana.  It must be remembered that these Ortega papers are in abstract only—­apparently summarized for the use of the royal council by some clerk, who may have been more familiar with affairs in Nueva Espana than in the Philippines. La Havana is probably his error or conjecture for a Cavite.

[21] Carbajal was the captain in whose ship sailed Pedro Bautista, envoy of Dasmarinas to Japan (Vol.  VIII, note 33).  A full account of this embassy is given by La Concepcion in Hist. de Philipinas, ii, pp. 341—­376.

[22] Miguel de Benavides (born about 1550) came to the Philippines as a member of the first Dominican mission band (1587).  Three years later he went to China as a missionary; returning to Manila, he accompanied Salazar to Spain (1592).  He was created the first bishop of the new diocese of Nueva Segovia, and afterward archbishop of Manila; he died in that city on July 26, 1605.  To him was due the foundation of the college of Santo Tomas.

[23] Ignacio de Santibanez, a Franciscan, was appointed first archbishop of Manila; he then went to Nueva Espana, where he was consecrated in 1596, but did not take possession of his see until 1598.  His term of office lasted less than three months, for he died on August 14 of the same year.