accompanies this, together with the letters which I am writing to King Prauncar.  Therefore Don Luis Dasmarinas collected an armed fleet, well provided with men, arms, and supplies and other necessaries, and also some religious.  He sailed with them from the harbor of this city, in the middle of September of this year.  The ambassador, well-satisfied with so strong an expedition, left after him.  I hope, our Lord willing, that he has already arrived at Camboxa, because the voyage is a short one, and that he is about to begin what we so much desire.  I made a list of the men in these islands, particularly of the supernumeraries who had come from Nueva Espana.  I found many, who on account of being lazy, and the land being too poor to support them, seemed to me suitable for this expedition, especially as this occupation of theirs from which so much good is expected, was to be made without any cost to his Majesty.  I shall continue my account.

After Don Luis Perez Dasmarinas sailed from this city from the port of Cavite, with two moderate-sized ships and one fusta, with the said force, well provided with supplies, arms, and munitions, taking with him as admiral, Pedro de Beistigui, he went by way of Bolinao, [30] to catch the tide from there, in order to cross with it to the mainland, above the shoals of Aynao [i.e., Hainan], near Camboxa.  A few days later, news came to the governor from the alcalde-mayor of Nueva Segovia in Cagayan, that the fusta of Don Luis’s fleet, in charge of Captain Luis Ortiz, had made port there, badly crippled by a heavy storm, which had separated them from the fleet, shortly after the departure from Manila.  They followed the coast until they came to the bar of the said city of Segovia.  It was preparing to sail again in search of the said fleet; this they did, after such repairs as were possible within ten days.  After that, other news was received from the alcalde-mayor that the admiral’s ship of the fleet was also lost in the same storm on one of the Babuyanes Islands, where the men, artillery, and clothing were saved; that the ship was lost; and that vessels were sent in which the admiral, his crew, and their clothing should be brought to the said city, which was effected.  They brought the news that the storm had been very heavy and had lasted five days; and that the flagship, being a more seaworthy vessel, had put to sea and had been seen no more.  An order was sent immediately to the alcalde-mayor of Cagayan to provide supplies from another ship, and other necessities for the admiral, so that he could pursue his voyage.  It was done as soon as possible, with new instructions and orders from the governor to follow the course which Don Luis gave him in his instructions at the time of his departure; and that if he should arrive at Camboxa before his general, he was to execute the orders in his instructions for the undertaking, whereupon he left.  Some months before Don Luis Perez Dasmarinas sailed from