sail, and on the second day, while our Spaniards were asleep, and quite sure of being among friends and faithful ones, the Chinese attacked them in the night, so suddenly that they could not defend themselves.  They were all beheaded and thrown into the sea.  The Chinese pillaged all their cargo, and after dividing the booty, sailed for their own country.  They only kept with them one wretched Spanish woman who accompanied our men.  They left her alive, but after having insulted and maltreated her, left her on the first Chinese shore that they reached.  She went then to the magistrates there, and informed them of the treachery committed by those people, and of the violence that they had inflicted on her.  But although the judges were courteous to her, no satisfaction was given her for her injuries, and she was unable to obtain justice.  On the contrary they ordered her to be taken into the interior by certain agents, and delivered to other supreme judges.  On that journey, which was very long and many leguas, she endured greater hardships—­until some governors, taking compassion on her and her tears, took her to the city of Macao, where the Portuguese reside, and they set her at liberty.  Through that means, the whole deed was learned, and was in the mouth of all in Manila; and upon the occasion of this expedition, they exaggerated it still more.

Finally, all of the slaves demanded by Governor Gomez Perez had to be supplied, but with injuries and acts of oppression; and with the same injuries and oppression they were all put on the galleys.  There they remained some time before sailing, and some of them died, because they were unused to that life.  All those slaves proved insufficient to man all the galleys, and the flagship was without rowers.  On that account, and in order to complete the work, more severe methods were used than at first.  The governor ordered that two hundred and fifty Chinese be drafted from those who go to Filipinas to trade, in order to man or equip the flagship.  Each of them was to be paid two pesos monthly from the royal treasury.  The governor assured them that they would not be chained, but free, and could have their weapons and serve as soldiers, and would only have to row the galley during calms, if any should occur, and in order to double certain headlands.  This decision being communicated to the Chinese, they ail refused it as an intolerable burden.  But when our governor insisted upon this, in order to carry out his design, the Chinese governor assembled his people in order to discuss the matter, and to plan how they might choose two hundred and fifty from among them all; and he threatened that he would take every tenth man by their houses.  That threat disturbed them so much, that the next day, all their windows were closed, and the merchants closed their shops; and the community was deprived of the provisions which were supplied to it by them.  Our governor, upon seeing this, saying that they had mutinied, had about