first wound with the point like a spear and then draw it through from behind, with so much force that they cut a man all to pieces.  The governor ordered them to retire, and they did so accordingly.  Having informed the governor of what had happened, a spark fell into a flask full of powder and burned three people.  From that another spark fell into a jar full of powder and burned five more soldiers.  And had not the sargento-mayor been so agile, it would have injured him.  Meanwhile those in the Parian were not rejoicing when they saw that, the day before, half of the Parian had been burned.  As men determined to conquer or die they came that night in two machines that they had made with so great skill that one side was low and the other high so that they overtopped the walls of the city; thus they could with very little trouble throw thirty men into the city each time when they attacked.  Behind these machines came a great throng of Sangleys, of whom the fury of the artillery killed a great number.  At the same time the artillery broke up the machines.  At this juncture reenforcements of one thousand men entered the city—­Pampanga Indians, comprising arquebusiers and pikemen.  They sallied out with some Spaniards and attacked the enemy.  They killed more than a thousand of them and set fire to the rest of the Parian.  In the fire three hundred of the most important and richest merchants were burned.  These, in order not to die at the hands of our men, hanged themselves and burned themselves alive with their belongings.  The Japanese, seeing that the Pampanga Indians were destroying and sacking the Parian with great fury, gradually joined them.  Together they killed all the Chinese whom they met, and went away, this man with a chest, this one with a pair of breeches, [and others with] bags filled with silks and rich articles.  But no Spaniard had any leave to take part in the sack.  However, some who took part in it, at all hazards, profited very much from the enemy.  The sack lasted all the afternoon and part of the night.  The enemy, upon seeing the Parian burned in every part, and their goods lost, were discouraged.  Having held a council that night, they very silently went to a village called San Pablo.  They were pursued by Don Luys de Velasco with five hundred Spaniards and one thousand Indians, by order of Governor Don Pedro de Acuna, before they reached San Pablo.  The Sangleys killed of our men six Spaniards and four Japanese, but it cost them fifteen hundred of their men.  So great was their number, and the confusion among all of them, that our men did not hesitate to kill as many of them as they met on the road and elsewhere.  The governor immediately sent word to his Majesty’s villages and ordered them not to spare any, but to put to the sword whomsoever they found.  Of all the Chinese, except thirty who were taken to the city—­and who died Christians, to all appearances, for they asked for the water of holy baptism—­no others are known to have taken the road to salvation,