la Gama was lost on La Barela, which is an island lying near Chanpan, where there were many Portuguese Christians and those of other nations, and a cleric who was going in the said junk from Macan to Malaca.  The said people disembarked, where this same king of Chanpan captured them all, distributed them as slaves, and otherwise ill-treated them, even forcing them to carry timber.  Captain Roque de Melo sent an embassy to the said king of Chanpan, asking him to return the people whom he was holding in captivity for ransom, or in any other way.  The king ransomed some, but refused to ransom others, so that more than half of them remained there.  He also said that those who went to that country were forced into slavery.  This witness knows all of this to be true, because he was at Malaca at the time.  He also heard it said that the king who was then reigning had ordered the execution of his own father.  Being in Canboja about six years ago, this witness heard that a junk which was on the way to Canboja from Cian ran aground at Chanpan in a storm, where, in like manner, all the Portuguese and others who were aboard were captured and robbed of their merchandise; but that their junk was resold to them, and the crew ransomed.  This witness also knows that a Portuguese, whom the king of Canboja, according to his custom, had made a nobleman of his kingdom, was, while aboard a trading-vessel, struck by a storm so that he put in at Chanpan, where the king of Chanpan ordered his execution, because he knew that he was a nobleman in Canboja.  The others who were with him he made captives.  This deponent, while in Canboja, saw some of the Portuguese who were captured in Don Jhoan de la Gama’s junk, which was lost there.  They were deprived of all their toes by order of the said king of Chanpan, because they had once escaped, but were caught again.  About ten years ago, while this witness was at Malaca, he learned that a vessel coming from Canboja to Malaca, laden with munitions and supplies for the fortress at Malaca, went ashore near Chanpan, and many Christians, who were on the vessel, were captured.  The king of Jor [Johore] being at war with Malaca about five years ago, the said king of Chanpan sent him aid, and otherwise assisted him considerably; so that with the assistance which the said king of Chanpan lent him, they put many Portuguese and other Christians to death.  Captain Francisco de Villegas being at Chanpan, with a ship and some men, the king made them embark upon his own ships to rob and plunder with him.  They went to Canboja, where they captured a large number of people, because when the latter saw bands of Portuguese coming, they thought that they were friends.  The king is an obstacle to both trade and general commerce, for quite commonly he is wont to coast with his fleet, along Cochinchina and Canboja, doing considerable damage to the merchants going from Canboja and Cian to trade, to Malaca and other neighboring places—­as Patan and China,