all that day.  It left the vessel by the pump-dale.  The next day, the wind veered to north-northeast, whereupon the ship set sail, and went coasting along the land, with sufficient winds until the nineteenth of the month of December, when it made port at Acapulco.  There were found the two smaller vessels that had sailed first from Manila.  Three days later, General Don Lope de Ulloa entered the same port of Acapulco, in the ship “Jesus Maria.”  That vessel had sustained the same storms as the ship “Espiritu Sancto.”  From the time when the two vessels had separated, on sailing out of the channel of Capul, in the Filipinas Islands, they had not sighted one another again during the entire voyage.

In the same year six hundred and three, Governor Don Pedro de Acuna sent the ship “Sanctiago” from Manila to Japon, with merchandise.  It was ordered to make its voyage to Quanto, in order to comply with the desire and wish of Daifusama.  As news had been already received of the death of Fray Geronimo de Jesus, four of the most important religious of his order in Manila—­namely, Fray Diego de Bermeo [3] (who had been provincial), Fray Alonso de la Madre de Dios, Fray Luys Sotello, [4] and one other associate—­sailed on that vessel for the said kingdom.

As soon as the ships “Jesus Maria” and “Espiritu Sancto” sailed for Nueva Espana, and the ship “Sanctiago” with the religious for Japon, there was more time to discuss further the matter started by the coming of the Chinese mandarins.  For finding themselves unoccupied with other matters, fear of the Sangleys became universal, and the suspicions that were current that the Sangleys were about to commit some mischievous outbreak.  This the archbishop and some religious affirmed and told, publicly and privately.  At this time, a considerable number of Chinese were living in Manila and its environs.  Some of them were baptized Christians living in the settlements of Baibai and Minondoc, [5] on the other side of the river, opposite the city.  Most of them were infidels, occupied and living in these same settlements and in the shops of the parian in the city; [they were employed] as merchants and in all other occupations.  The majority of them were fishermen, stonecutters, charcoal-burners, porters, masons, and day-laborers.  Greater security was always felt in regard to the merchants, for they are the better class of people, and those who are most interested, because of their property.  So great security was not felt about the others, even though they were Christians; because, as they are a poor and covetous people, they would be inclined to any act of meanness.  However, it was always thought that it would be difficult for them to cause any commotion, unless a strong fleet came from China, on which they could rely.  Talk continued to increase daily, and with it suspicion; for some of the Chinese themselves, both infidels and Christians, in order to prove themselves friends of the Spaniards, and clean from all guilt, even told