Many of the Dutch who were wounded have confessed, and died reconciled to the Church.  Among them was the master who, as I said above, had prevented the fire, in order not to lose his soul.  We hope that he gained his soul, for he died from a wound received in the flight from the battle, with signs of great repentance for his sins, and leaving excellent pledges of his salvation.  Father Andres de la Camara, of the Society of Jesus, attended to the Dutch.  He was a native of Gante [i.e., Ghent], and although he has seldom used his own language [i.e., the Flemish] for eighteen or twenty years, one would believe that our God’s mercy aided him with especial efficacy; for he conversed with the Dutch elegantly and fluently of the divine mysteries.  Such is the outcome of the war.  Now we shall recount something of other matters concerning what I have thus far told.

A ship of Chinese merchants went to Maluco to trade merchandise with the Dutch.  The latter gave the captain of the said vessel, called Caichuan, a general, fourteen thousand pesos to invest in trust for them.  He returned to China, and thinking that it was a good sum, and that there was no one to bring suit against him, he kept the said money, as he never again expected to see the Dutch.  Some of the interested persons were in these Dutch vessels, and they did not fail to ask, of every ship that they seized, after that of Cachuan, and threatened to punish him severely if they caught him.  Had he been seized, it would have been a great loss to this city, for, as is affirmed, he brought fifty thousand pesos invested by our citizens.  His time to come arrived, and when he least expected it, he found himself near the Dutch patache.  He started to escape, and the patache to pursue him.  Cachuan, seeing himself closely pursued, cried out to his men that there was good hope of help, and advised them all to kneel down and ask protection of the God of the Castilas [i.e., Castilians] as they call us—­saying that He was sufficiently able to deliver that ship from the Dutch, since it contained so much property of those who adored and served Him.  They prayed, whereupon a fresh wind immediately came, which took them, against their wish, to an unknown islet, where the patache lost sight of them.  The Chinese did not cease to pray as above for the space of five days, twice each day.  At the end of that time, they had a favorable wind, with the aid of which they entered the channel used by the ships of Castilla, many leguas from their right and usual path, and at last reached port in safety after the victory.