that night, fearing lest a portion of the eighty Spaniards of the galley had taken refuge there, so cowardly did their guilt make them.  The only survivors in the galley were Fray Francisco Montilla, a discalced religious of St. Francis, and Juan de Cuellar, the governor’s secretary, who were sleeping below decks—­where the Chinese, since they are so cowardly, did not dare descend for three days, until after the fury of the first attack had ceased.  Then they put them ashore on the Ylocos coast, on the same island of Luzon, so that the natives would let them take water, and because the friar and the secretary had made a certain compact with them, to surrender, if no harm was done them.  The Chinese, assured that no other longtime Christians were alive, commenced to cry out and rejoice loudly at having committed that deed, saying now they had no one to fear.

The Spaniards, who were in other boats, near the land, although they saw the lights, and indistinctly heard the noise from the flagship, supposed that it was some unexpected work connected with the galley, or something of that sort.  When they learned what was happening, after a long interval, from those who escaped by swimming, they could not remedy it and consequently remained quiet.  They were but few, and of inadequate force, and their enterprise was ruined.  They waited until the morning, and when it dawned they saw that the galley had already set its bastard, [286] and was sailing toward China with the wind astern, and they could not follow it.  It made its voyage, as the wind served it, along all the coast of the island, until they cleared Luzon, the Sangleys continuing to celebrate their victory. [287]....

[The secretary and friar, after suffering great tortures of mind from the Chinese, who threatened often to kill them, are saved at last, through the superstition of the Chinese, and left ashore on the Ilocos coast.  The Chinese show their cowardice in a conflict with the natives on that coast, whither they return later “to sacrifice to the demon” one of their Christian Filipino prisoners.  Being unable to reach China, they land at Cochinchina, “where the king of Tunquin seizes their cargo, and two large pieces of artillery embarked for the expedition to Maluco, the royal standard, and all the jewels, ornaments, and money.  He let the galley drift ashore.”  The news causes great lamentation in Manila.  “Some of those who hated the governor rejoiced, but their wrath immediately vanished and they wept generally.”  Subsequent events follow:]

...  The news having been learned in Manila, and no papers of the governor being found, appointing his successor (although it was known that he had a royal decree for this), and believing it had been lost in the galley along with much of his own property, and that of the king and private persons:  the city appointed Licentiate Rojas as governor, and he filled the post for forty days.  But the secretary, Juan de Cuellar, together with Fray Francisco de Montilla,