The Philippine Islands, 1493-1898 — Volume 14 of 55 eBook

This eBook from the Gutenberg Project consists of approximately 325 pages of information about The Philippine Islands, 1493-1898 — Volume 14 of 55.

The Philippine Islands, 1493-1898 — Volume 14 of 55 eBook

This eBook from the Gutenberg Project consists of approximately 325 pages of information about The Philippine Islands, 1493-1898 — Volume 14 of 55.
out of more than twenty thousand who were infidels.  The governor having seen that they were killing all the Sangleys in the islands, ordered, for just reasons, that none of those coming to the city should be killed.  As soon as this news was given out, about four hundred came.  Had they been ten thousand, they would have been received, for they were needed in the city.  They all accused Bautistilla, a Christian, who, as above stated, was their governor, saying that he was the cause of the insurrection, and that he had been made king of all the country.  They also accused Miguel Onte and Alonso Sagoyo—­both Christian Sangleys, and the chiefest men.  Having taken their depositions, and through the sufficient proof that was furnished, since all blamed Bautistilla, the latter was condemned to be hanged and quartered, and his head set in the Parian.  He was declared a traitor, and his property confiscated for his Majesty.  His houses were razed and their sites sown with salt.  This sentence proceeded from the royal Audiencia, and was executed on the eleventh of the month of October.  At the foot of the scaffold he said that that death was not due him for his conduct, and that he had always been a loyal vassal of his Majesty; and that God knew what was in his breast, and the thoughts of his heart.  He died with the marks of a good Christian.  Then on the fifteenth day of the said month, the two Christian Sangleys were executed.  They were condemned by the sargento-mayor and master-of-camp.  One of them, in order to save himself, declared that the mandarins had come with the cunning purpose of spying out the land, and that the insurrection had been by their orders.  He said that they were coming soon to attack the city, and that the Spaniards should not neglect to act very carefully.  Accordingly the governor set about taking all necessary measures.  He and the sargento-mayor worked in a way wonderful to behold.  May God strengthen their hands!  Four days later, when the enemy had fortified themselves quite strongly in San Pablo, Captain Don Luys de Velasco went out at the head of sixty Spaniards.  Having reached the calaco, he attacked so spiritedly that the Sangleys retreated.  He entered the camp of the enemy in his eagerness, whereupon, uttering loud cries, they returned in a large mob to attack him, so that it cost him his life and those of four soldiers.  The others, on seeing their captain killed, retreated and went down the mountain.  This news reached the city, whereupon Sargento-mayor Ascoeta went Out with 220 Spanish arquebusiers, 400 Japanese, 2,000 Pampanga Indians (of whom 1,500 were arquebusiers and musketeers, and the others were armed with spears, swords and arrows), 200 Monos, [21] and 300 blacks, who came as friends to take part in this war.  After having gone only seven leguas, they met the enemy, and having rested four days, they formed their camp.  After having found where the enemy could retreat, and holding them at every point, they
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