For this purpose they promise and give them articles
of value; for of all known people they best understand
how to bribe, and they will contrive to know all secrets.
And all this they can easily accomplish, if they succeed
in maintaining dishonorable carnal intercourse with
the Indian men and women. To stop all this, there
is no other means out to send all the said infidel
Sangleys out of this city, and give them only a place
to live and dwell in during the two or three months
of April, May, and June, while the trading and lading
for Nueva Espana is being carried on; or, if it seems
best to his Majesty, to give license to a few of them,
even though they be such cruel and open enemies of
him and of God; and to give an order that no Indians,
men or women, shall settle near them, but shall remain
at a considerable distance from the settlement or market
where these infidel Sangleys may dwell. His most
reverend Lordship, considering these things from the
point of view of a person who has known the Sangleys
so many years, is acquainted with their language and
customs, has been in that country of China for a long
time, and has noticed that since the said rebellion
and war which the said Sangleys set on foot and waged
against us, some of the natives have made a settlement
on a part of the site where the market and Parian
formerly stood, in which dwelt these infidel Sangleys;
and that the new settlement of the said natives adjoins
the new market and Parian which has been erected for
the said infidel Sangleys, in which they now are,
and at present dwell. The said natives are so
near to the said infidel Sangleys, that it is not
more than a rivulet, no wider than a narrow street,
that separates them; and it has a foot-bridge of timbers,
which affords passage from one side to the other.
And even this is not the only evil and danger, but
as the said Parian of the said infidels is midway
between Manila and the said new settlement of the
natives, every time when those Indian men or women
have to come to this city, they must do so by passing
through the street of the said Parian of the said
infidel Sangleys; and at morning, noon, and night
the latter can securely plan and execute all their
misdeeds. What is perhaps the worst is, that
from birth the Indians of this country, men and women,
grow up in the water, bathing and swimming. The
said Sangleys see them naked in the said creek, or
at best in the river which is there, close to both
districts. What with this unavoidable chance
for caressing them, and particularly for attracting
the boys with fruits and other little presents, they
must draw them into their own vices. This is
particularly so as these boys actually go upon the
bank in the district of the infidel Sangleys, and there
disport, and enjoy themselves; and they are usually
naked, or, if dressed, they are almost the same as
naked. It is very noticeable with these Sangley
people that they intermix with any other people who
are here, in a very singular fashion; for at once