case the king of Tydore should fail them (of whom it might be suspected that he did not wish to see his enemy totally destroyed), were the artillery and craft that were being prepared; and more than one thousand two hundred soldiers, well-armed and equipped with coats-of-mail and helmets, until they should go to the island of Banda in order to garrison that island as it needed.  There should be a number of light vessels to catch the enemy when fleeing.  Thus would the war be finished entirely and quickly, and without bloodshed.  The infidel Ternatans themselves even said and published the same.  They confessed that, if a large contingent of soldiers should reach their land, they would universally render homage without fighting.  Consequently he inferred that secret Christians were living in the Malucas.  The entire conquest of that island of Banda was very useful and advantageous, and of slight risk; and its maintenance was of great importance to the inhabitants of Amboyno, which belongs to us.  Gaspar Gomez also affirmed that the Portuguese were facilitating the enterprise considerably, and recounted the interest and profit that would accrue to his Majesty.  Father Antonio Marta was also of that opinion, in whom Governor Gomez Perez placed so great faith.  Brother Gaspar Gomez to these so full reports and information added such details that he quite set on fire the mind of the governor.

At this time the king of Camboxa, named Landara, sent the governor an embassy through two Spanish captains, accompanied by many Cambodians, with the requisite authority for prosecuting his cause.  That barbarous king took care that his ambassadors should not be natives of his kingdoms, because of the lack of confidence with which his vassals inspired him as to their faithfulness.  He chose the ambassadors from different classes, so that a good result might come from the difference of their characters and dispositions.  One was a Portuguese, Diego Veloso by name, and the other a Castilian, Blas Ruyz de Fernan Goncalez. [284] They presented Gomez Perez with a fine gift, consisting of a considerable quantity of ivory, benzoin, chinaware, pieces of silks and cottons, and an elephant of a noble disposition, as was learned later by experience.  They proposed their embassy, which was, in short, to beg help against the king of Syan [i.e., Siam], who was about to attack the Cambodian king with a vast army.  The latter in recognition of that aid offered to become a vassal of the king of Espana, and a Christian.  That king was certain that so valorous and courageous a knight as Gomez Perez would, under no circumstance, refuse a deed in which God would receive so obvious a service, and that would be so advantageous to the crown of Espana.  The governor accepted the present, and responded to it by another of certain European products, and thanked the king for his confidence in applying to him.  However, it was impossible for him to set about that help just then, or divert any portion of those forces