who was a Portuguese, and took the fragata along with them, together with two negroes who were aboard of her.  The latter told them that the pilot had had all the gold thrown overboard, whereupon they ordered the pilot to be cast into the sea alive.  They captured at Santiago on the same coast another vessel laden with tallow and Cordovan leather [morocco].  Considering that it was worth little to them, they burned it, and its crew escaped by swimming, except a few Spaniards and natives who perished in the water.  The enemy seeing that they were acquiring small profit in that neighborhood, decided to go up along the coast of Nueva Espana, and wait at the entrance of the Californias for the annual vessels from these islands—­the very purpose and object for which they had resolved upon their navigation, as is evident from the aforesaid.  However they abandoned that purpose, upon being told by the negroes whom they had brought with them that Don Luis de Velazco, viceroy of Piru, had left Lima in person for the port of Callao to superintend the preparation of a large fleet, as he had been informed that pirates had passed and were along the coast.  The enemy, fearful of this, and recalling the fact that, five years previously, Arricharse de Aquines, [25] an Englishman, was defeated and captured by our men, after the greater part of his force was killed, decided to abandon their voyage to the Californias, and to head for these islands, with the intention of awaiting at the Ladrones the shipments of silver from Nueva Espana to Manila.  With the said intent, they put to sea, but after sailing for several days, they encountered a storm, which brought them all nearly to the verge of destruction.  One very dark and stormy night they lost sight of the almiranta, and never saw it again.  Seeing himself without this vessel, the general chose as almiranta the fly-boat which he had remaining.  This was a vessel of perhaps fifty toneladas burden, called “La Concordia,” under command of a captain called Esias Delende.  Then they resumed their course, with the same intention of capturing our silver, but, if unable to do more, to proceed to Maluco to barter for cloves, for which purpose they carried mirrors, knives, basins, and other small wares.  They reached the Ladrones Islands—­our Lord thus permitting—­four or five days after our vessels had passed.  They were detained there for several days, where, upon seeing their plans frustrated, they burned the fragata that they had brought from Piru.  Thereupon they set sail and made the principal channel of these islands, eighty or ninety leguas from this city of Manila, where they stopped—­either for iron, or, as our people here said, because of a need of provisions; or, as I believe, and as they themselves asserted, purposely.  In short, instead of going by way of Capul, the right and necessary path for the voyage they were making, they entered a small bay called Albay, on the Camarines coast, where they anchored as if they were in their own harbors,