The fifth.  That he shall also deliver up all the villages in the island of Batochina or El Moro, which were formerly Christian; as well as the islands of Marotay, and Herrao, which were also Christian, with all the artillery and ammunition in them.  He answered that he is ready to deliver up everything, as he did with his person.

Don Pedro de Acuna, governor and captain-general of the Filipinas Islands, president of the royal Audiencia resident therein, and general of this Maluco fleet, entrusted these capitulations to General Juan Xuarez Gallinato and captain Christoval de Villagra.  They made them in the form above declared, with the help of Pablo de Lima, a Portuguese native of these islands, who was the interpreter of the [Moro] language.  The said king affixed his signature, according to his custom.  It was done in the fort of Ternate April ten, one thousand six hundred and six.  The said general and captain, and the said Pablo de Lima, also signed it.

The king signed it in Persian characters with graceful curves, and the Spaniards simply.  This original agreement was brought to Espana with the other authentic documents.

[Possession is formally taken of the newly-subdued and of the reconquered territory in the name of the king of Spain; and after consultation it is determined to take the king of Ternate to Manila, leaving governors appointed to carry on his government.  All swear homage to the Spanish monarch, and promise not to admit the Dutch or other foreigners to their clove trade, and not to prevent missionary work.  Acuna orders a new fort to be built at Tidore, remits a third part of the tribute to be paid by the Ternatans, and, after strengthening the fort at Terate, leaves Juan de Esquivel there with six hundred men, boats, ammunition, and supplies, to act as governor of all the Moluccas, while he returns to Manila with his prisoners.  Trouble begins immediately, and Esquival is kept busy with expeditions to the various islands and forts, while the Dutch again begin their machinations; and sickness fights powerfully against the Spaniards.  At Mindanao, a conspiracy to escape is discovered among the prisoners, for Mindanao is friendly to the Ternatans.  The narrative continues:]

In all the time that we have described, no news of our victory reached Filipinas.  From this silence and suspense they argued in those regions, and especially in Manila, that Don Pedro and his fleet had perished, or that he had succeeded so poorly that general sorrow would be caused.  Never was virtue free from envious ones who pursue it, and such were not wanting to Don Pedro in Manila.  But although these were well known [some words misprinted in text]—­so that popular suspicion makes them the authors of the poison from which it was believed that that great knight died, twenty-two days after his arrival—­we ahall suppress their names; since it is unworthy of the author, who has to maintain neutrality (and indifference,