consideration of their services and those of Henrique, their father.  Pablo had married a Christian woman, and a devout one, although she was a relative of the king of Tydore, who is not a Christian.  For this reason, and because he possessed in Ternate the ancient inheritance to the towns of Guita, Mofaquia, Mofaguita, Pauate, Pelueri, Sansuma, Tahane, Mayloa, and Soma; and in the island of Maquien, Sabele, Talapao, Talatoa, Mofabouaua, Tabalola, Tagono, Bobaba, and Molapa—­of the majority of which the Ternatan king had dispossessed him, as well as Bitua and other towns in Tydore, on the pretext of his having abandoned them—­he went to Manila, where he discussed with the governor the method of facilitating the conquest, on the very eve of its execution.  His counsel was favored, and he gave it as it was his own cause.  For, in addition to the inheritance that the king of Ternate had usurped from him, he expected to get the island of Moutil, which had belonged to his ancestors.  The expedition was also authorized by the presence of Don Juan Ronquillo, the governor’s nephew, who held equal authority by land and sea with Sarmiento.  If there were anything wanting, it was thought that it would be supplied easily by the valor of the soldiers, together with the shortness of the voyage and the carelessness of the enemy.  But the divided command proved an obstacle to that hope.  Their voyage was not stormy, but neither was it so favorable that they were enabled to anchor exactly at Ternate, as was necessary in order to deprive the enemy from using their own vigilance.  They went to Moutil to anchor, and within sight of the inhabitants of the land, fought with some hostile janquas. [281] These were captured, and the Christians found within them were set at liberty.  As Pablo de Lima knew the harbors, and as the people of the island did not possess the forces necessary to defend themselves against a fleet, and as it was easily attacked on the sides, it surrendered.  The natives came with branches of palms, citron-trees, and gariofylos [i.e., caryophyllus], or clove-trees, as tokens of peace, and to beg pardon.  They obtained both, and for master, Pablo de Lima.  However the vesting him with that domain proved cf little utility; for a few days after, all the people slipped away, either considering themselves more secure in Ternate, or to meet the enemy—­who must necessarily carry the war to that island, as happened.  Sarmiento repaired his vessels on that island [i.e., Moutil], and without the loss of a single soldier, and flushed by his first victory, went to Talangame, passing through the hostile caracoas, which had been fitted up hastily and without order.  The fort and the king, in possession of our artillery—­especially the rampart, which was enlarged and afterward called Cachil Tulo, after the king’s uncle, who built it—­were in readiness long before, and were threatening some great disaster.  Our men landed on that side, but their landing was opposed by the