and they were encouraging all with holy words and
valorous deeds, and now with musket, now with arquebus,
pike, or spear, and sword and buckler, were standing
as sentries and helping on the walls day and night.
The enemy began to make grimaces and gestures within
musket-range, making obeisances, and doing other things
worthy of their shamelessness. In reply, they
remained there as if born there, so that of the many
Sangleys who came, it was found that only one escaped,
and that all were killed with the balls fired at them
from the walls; for both day and night, no one took
his eyes from the enemy, who went retreating to the
river in the midst of his camp, for the other side
of it was defended by a wall, and that precaution
was not a bad one, if it had availed anything.
Thursday morning, on the seventh or the said month,
the governor and council of war determined to attack
the enemy. Between eight and nine o’clock,
one hundred and fifty Spanish arquebusiers and five
hundred Japanese left the city, under command of Sargento-mayor
Gallinato, who was accompanied by other captains.
Attacking with greater spirit than concert, the Japanese
entered in the vanguard, and the Spaniards in the
rear, and assaulted the Sangleys. They gained
the gate of the river, and the chapel, where the camp
was situated. They killed five hundred men, besides
wounding many others. They gained possession
of the enemy’s flags. Then the Sangleys,
perceiving that the Spaniards were becoming greedy,
attacked them on both sides with more than fourteen
hundred men—and so vigorously, that the
Spaniards were compelled to retire, in spite of their
disinclination, when they saw the Japanese retreating
as rapidly as possible. Consequently they were
forced to turn and retreat to the city, and to lose
what had been gained. The enemy with loud cries
went to attack in their course the gates of the city
and the lowest and weakest part of its wall.
All the army hastened to that side, to the assistance
of those on the walls. They kept their matches
ready, and, with each pikeman between two arquebusiers,
Sargento-mayor Gallinato retreated to the city.
As soon as he was in safety, the artillery began to
play, and gave the enemy a shower that softened their
fury, and compelled them to halt upon recognizing
their danger. Sargento-mayor Gallinato, encouraging
his men, attacked anew, issuing with his men by the
lower gate, and the city was very joyful on that account.
As soon as they had cleared the country, they halted,
in order that the same thing might not again happen
as before. Had they not been near the city walls,
and had not Sargento-mayor Gallinato with only ten
soldiers defended the bridge with great spirit, they
would all have been killed. After this Gallinato
sent to the governor asking for orders, for the men
were fatigued and the sun extremely hot, while he was
badly used by two wounds with stakes that he had received.
Such are the weapons used by the Sangleys; and they