hunting; and suddenly attacked them, and killed the said captain and seven others.  They first sold their lives, and with greed for death itself, killed some of their false friends, really their enemies—­among them the very chief who contrived that treachery.  The other Spaniards sought shelter in a small boat which they had there, left the river, and went to our fort, giving news of the disaster just as Captain Lazaro de Torres arrived.  With the help that had just come to them, they determined to take vengeance for that perfidy.  The commandant sent the said captain, Lazaro de Torres, with one of the galleys which they had there, accompanied by one hundred infantrymen.  They entered the river of Tanchuy, which is very beautiful, and densely inhabited by the natives.  The latter immediately deserted their settlements, and our men went to the rice granaries, and filled their galley and four large champans, which are used as freight ships in these seas.  They could have filled fifty if they had had them, so great is the abundance in that country.  They captured I know not how many persons; then without doing any more evil or burning their villages, they retired with plenty of food, which was the most important thing.  This feat having been performed, the said Lazaro de Torres returned with his ship to Manila, where he entered February 21, 1628.

On the same day that our fleet reached the port of Cavite, which was, as aforesaid, September 6, 1627, a cho (a craft which is used in these waters, whose sails are made of rushes) came from Macan.  It warned the Portuguese galliots which had come from that city to this with great wealth of merchandise, and which were about to return with about one million in silver, that they should take note that the Dutch enemy were stationed in the passage of Macan, awaiting them with four ships in order to capture them, and that they should change their direction and course.  Thereupon, Governor Don Juan Nino de Tabora, seeing that our fleet was ready, and that it would be a fine thing to effect some stroke with the Dutch, as well as for other ends which will be told later, resolved to send two galleons, to act as escort to the Macan galliots.  The Portuguese gave twenty thousand pesos to help the soldiers.  On October 13 the said galliots, five in number, left with the flagship “San Yldefonse,” in which Don Juan de Alcarazo went as commander; in the other galleon, the “Pena de Francia,” Don Pedro de Mendiola went as commander.  Each galleon carried about six hundred persons.  They were so well equipped that they could fight with any Dutch ships whatever.  Father Ygnacio de Muxica of our Society, and a brother, were in the flagship, and a father of St. Francis in the other galleon.  Both galleons suffered great troubles from whirlwinds, seas, and storms all the way to Macan.  One day our flagship snapped the topmast of its mainmast and it fell down.  Another day the mast sprang, and knocked the rudder out of