Relation of what Don Francisco de Mendoza did in the exploration of the said province.

Gomez Perez Dasmarinas.  At the beginning of August of the same year, Gomez Perez Dasmarinas sent Don Francisco de Mendoca with a troop of soldiers after Don Luis Dasmarinas, his son.  Having reached Tuy on the nineteenth of the said month, the chiefs gave him a cordial reception, and he traded with them, especially with one of the principal women.  Thence, accompanied by this woman, and other Indians of her village, who aided him in carrying the burdens of his stores, he went to Bantal.  There he found a cross erected, and the inhabitants of the village drawn up near it with lance and shield, as if about to offer him battle.  He asked nothing from them, and they gave nothing.  He did not stop there.  A chief went with Don Francisco of his own accord to Buguey, where he found its inhabitants stationed in the passes with the same preparation of arms.  The people making an effort to fool him with some bundles of grass, he begged them for rice in return for money, but they refused him.  He seized by force two chiefs, and took them with him.  These men, having seen the injury done him by the inhabitants of Tuy, took it upon themselves to guide the expedition to the hamlets where Don Luis had been before going to Dangla.  Don Francisco tried to get rice in Dangla, offering to pay for it; but as they refused to sell it to him, he seized a chief.  He entertained this chief and his wife and had them sleep near him.  When morning came, the chief offered that if Don Francisco would allow him to go to the village, he would bring him rice; but as soon as he was at liberty he took flight, and had the village put under arms.  The inhabitants went out to meet Don Francisco armed with spear and shield, so that he was obliged to fortify himself during one night, as they insolently molested the Spaniards.

Balabat; Pao; Palali; Lamot; Nacalan.  Don Francisco went to the villages of Balabat and Pao.  The two chiefs in his custody escaped from him there.  Thence he went to the village of Palilamot, which he found under arms.  From this latter place he went to the village of Nacalan, which he found deserted.  In that place he embarked in certain small boats on Thursday, the twenty-ninth, and voyaged along the river until the thirty-first of August.  On that date he reached three small villages, which he found deserted and their approaches strewn with straw.

He reached some farms on the first of September, where Don Luis had been, opposite Yugan.  He offered several Indians pay to guide him, but they refused.  On the third of September, Don Francisco reached a river, that of Cagayan.  Embarking on it, he reached the settlement of Purao, where he seized some supplies.  On the sixth of September he reached the presidio of San Pedro y San Pablo [St. Peter and St. Paul] where he found some Spaniards from the province of Cagayan.  Continuing his voyage in search of Don Luis, along the said river, he reached the city of Nueva Segovia. [52] It is understood that he was sent from Manila to look for Don Luis, since throughout his journey he proceeded on the road that he had taken, without stopping to attend to anything pertaining to the exploration and pacification.