The Philippine Islands, 1493-1898 — Volume 22 of 55 eBook

This eBook from the Gutenberg Project consists of approximately 302 pages of information about The Philippine Islands, 1493-1898 — Volume 22 of 55.

The Philippine Islands, 1493-1898 — Volume 22 of 55 eBook

This eBook from the Gutenberg Project consists of approximately 302 pages of information about The Philippine Islands, 1493-1898 — Volume 22 of 55.

As soon as they left the patache in the said passage for the purpose of capturing the Siamese ship, they ran along the whole coast of Asia until they reached the island of Hainam, where the fishery of Great China is located, a place most plentifully supplied with food.  They went to the kingdom of Champa, and anchored at Pulo Condor, where they sent out their lanchas with forty Spaniards, and about twenty Indians and negroes, to see whether they could get the water which was very necessary to them.  In the meantime the galleons kept moving about on one tack or another; but they were overtaken by so violent a storm that they had to go to another island called Pulo Ubi, leaving the lanchas with their men ashore, and as yet nothing has been heard of the latter.  But it is thought that they are in Camboja, for that king is friendly to us, and will have welcomed them, as they were only eight leguas from the bar of Camboja. [43] Thus the galleons were left without pataches or lanchas.  They went to Pulo to land at the kingdom of Pan, where they anchored and got water; and they took food from the inhabitants of the country until the latter arose against and wounded some of our men.  But our men killed some of them, among them a nephew of the king of Pan himself.  The Spaniards took away two boats from them, from which they made boats such as we use.  While at that place, a ship manned by Chinese and Malays was captured.  They were coming with flags and passports from the Dutch, with whom they were trading.  They were captured on that account, although they had nothing of any value, for they had left their merchandise in the kingdom of Pan.  It was heard that there were Dutch ships in the strait of Malaca, which were committing depredations.  The Spaniards sent a lancha manned by soldiers and an adjutant, to reconnoiter; but after spying carefully until they were quite near Malaca, no Dutch were discovered, and they returned to the galleons with that news.  While they were there, the king of Pan wrote in very complimentary manner to our commander, and, not saying that he knew of the death of his nephew, offered our men everything that they needed, so great fear had seized him.  A lancha was sent to the kingdom of Patani to see whether there was a Dutch factory there, as was usual.  Two Javanese were brought back, who said that two years ago, when that kingdom was in power, they had driven the Dutch from that place.  They had a great quantity of pepper (which is the product yielded by that kingdom), for there was no one to whom to sell it, as they had sold it to the Dutch before.  The commander wrote to them to have their men take a load of it to Manila, and that it would be bought from them; and also that he would give them indemnity for a slight injury which some of his men had done them, not knowing that they were friends, by taking a small quantity of rice from them, which the fleet and those who brought it needed.  The men fled, without giving any account of themselves.

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