In human actions the moral doctrine is hidden; and judicious writers are wont to deduce this from the relation of events, as the fruit of their history.  But in writing of the conquest and conservation of barbarous lands (which is founded on navigations and garrisons), what civil precepts of those who establish and compose the political life—­however sagacious statecraft may have made them—­can we bring to the reader’s view?  And what can be offered in this matter that the reader could not infer as a necessary consequence, contained in the preceding propositions?  Since, then, the subject forbids us this role, let us finish it, and redeem the promise by which we bound ourselves at the beginning.  Don Pedro de Acuna, now general of the fleet which was assembled in Filipinas, attended at the same time to its despatch and to the safety of the province, which he was about to abandon to go personally upon so stubborn an undertaking.  Some attribute the loss of all the Malucas to Don Pedro’s good fortune, so that, time offering him greater material, the victory might be more glorious.  He provided very diligently what was needed for the war and for almost all the casualties thereof.  The point or promontory of Yloilo extends into the sea not far from Arevalo in the island of Panay.  It is spacious enough to serve as a camping-place and suitable for those arms then prepared.  There the fleet was assembled.  It consisted of five large ships, and six galleys; three galliots, like galizabras, belonging to the crown of Portugal—­in one of which Pedro Alvarez de Abreo, commandant of the fort of Tydore, embarked, while the other two were in charge of Juan Rodriguez Camelo, a commandant sent from Malaca by General Andres Furtado de Mendoca, to aid with his prudence and his strength, and to carry to him information of the outcome; one flat galliot for unloading artillery, which carried three hundred baskets of rice; four vessels [297] built for transporting the provisions; two ten-ton champans, carrying one thousand six hundred baskets of clean rice; two English lanchas, in which the Portuguese went [to Manila] after the loss of the Tydore fort; seven fragatas belonging to his Majesty, and seven belonging to individuals; and as many other champans—­in all thirty-six sail.  Master-of-camp Juan de Esquivel took twelve companies of Spanish infantry, of which four were levied in Andaluzia—­namely, his own, that of Captain Pablo Garrucho, that of Pedro Sevil, that of Lucas de Vergara Gaviria; and six in Nueva Espana, namely, that of Don Rodrigo de Mendoca (this gentleman is the son of Don Juan de Baeca y Castilla and of Dona Maria de Mendoca, and on the latter side grandson to the marques de Montesclaros; and left Italia to serve his Majesty in Filipinas, at the request of the viceroy of Nueva Espana, his kinsman), the company of Captain Pascual de Alarcon Pacheco, that of Martin de Esquivel, that of Bernardino Alfonso, that of Pedro Delgado, and that of Estevan