At this moment the small Portuguese ship, seeing the outcome, laid its course to Malaca, because it had arrived only at that moment.  Our ship had grappled with the enemy for six hours, from eight in the morning until two in the afternoon, when the former foundered.

Admiral Joan de Alcaga, who was chasing the enemy’s almiranta, overtook it, and after he had fired two or three volleys of his artillery, musketry, and arquebuses, he grappled it on its stern-quarter on the starboard side.  Our men immediately boarded the enemy, the said admiral being among the first.  The enemy defended themselves well, serving their artillery and thrice setting a fire purposely with some powder cartridges, but our men hastened to put out the fire with buckets of water.  The enemy seeing the strength of their assailants and how unfortunately the action was turning out, because the best of them were killed, honorably surrendered.  Admiral Joan de Alcaga agreed, and so they were captured with nineteen men alive.  On our side only one man was killed by a gun-shot, one Joan Baptista de Mondragon, a nephew of the precentor in the cathedral at Manila.  Another from the Canarias was drowned while trying to jump from one ship to the other.  Some were seriously wounded; the captain and master of our almiranta, Joan Lopez de Serra, was shot through the thigh, and a certain Calderon was shot through one side of his shoulder and part of his arm.  There were others wounded, but none seriously.  Some booty was found on the vessel, two pipes of oil and two of wine, a number of basins, candlesticks, and brass mortars, iron in plates and bars, and some other small wares of little value.  They captured twelve pieces of artillery—­eight heavy and excellent pieces of cast iron, and four small ones.  Among other things captured, was found a small iron coffer which was kept in the after-cabin, and in which the admiral carried the papers and commissions which the prince of Orange had given him when he appointed him captain of that ship.  One was in his own tongue and the other in ours, which is the one copied at the end of this relation.

One or two charts were found, which they brought for Piru; these the holy Inquisition has in its possession.  Then Admiral Joan de Alcega ordered a few sailors to be transferred to the ship surrendered by the enemy, and set them to making repairs in order to take it into Manila; for its main mast and rigging were lost, and our men in boarding left nothing standing by which they could navigate.  They took it to an island near by, called Luban, While there, our men sighted a dismantled ship which seemed to be coming toward them, which they took to be the enemy’s flagship, which was already ours, and that it was being sent, like their own, to be repaired.  Their expectation was not unfounded, for they had seen our men in it and heard them shouting, “Victory!” so that it seemed to them that nothing else could be possible.  But in actual truth it was the enemy,