well as to the alcaiceria which the Chinese had there.  Everything was burned, including a very large supply of rice which they had gathered, and which will cause them great want.  A quantity of powder and sulphur was also burned, besides more than sixty joangas.  These were the ships of their fleet, in which they went out to pillage, using besides more than a hundred other small craft, which also were broken up and burned; so that not a single ship was left to them.  Then the Spaniards looked for the tombs of the kings, in accordance with the order given from Manila by the governor.  The tombs are highly esteemed by the Joloans.  They found three wonderful and splendid ones, especially one of them, which was the one for the present king.  They also burned these, although the Joloans tried to prevent them.  All this was accomplished in the same afternoon when much of the fleet arrived; the men then retired to their ships.  Next day, which was Easter Sunday, the Spaniards heard that at a certain point there was a large joanga belonging to the same king, and three versos.  Again they disembarked and burned the said joanga and captured the versos.  Upon all these occasions the captain-general was the first to disembark, the last to enter the vessel, and the first in all places where they went.  With him went Father Fabricio Sarsali, with a banner on which was an image of our father St Francis Javier, who had been taken as patron of that expedition.

After all that had been accomplished, the commander, Don Cristobal de Lugo, sent a letter to the king which had been sent him from Manila by the governor, in reply to that which the king had written him.  The governor had ordered that the letter should not be sent until after the punishment had been accomplished.  The king replied, as the senate of Venecia might have done, with more courtesies and reasons of state.  For writing it he employed as secretary the Spanish woman whom he had captured at the shipyard, who is named Dona Lucia, of whom he is very fond.  Consequently, although the Spanish commander tried to ransom her and offered as much as six hundred pesos for her, the king would not surrender her—­answering that it was not consistent with his greatness to give her up for money; but that he would send her freely, if they would give him in recompense the falcons and versos which they had captured from him, and one of the slave women who was in our power.  The slave woman was sent him, but not the artillery, and a fine thing it would have been to arm the enemy to ransom one woman.  Thus did she remain in their power, but made half a queen.  Some of the enemy were killed, and others captured.  Some of those whom the king had captured from us came to us, but not all, for most of them had been sold in other kingdoms.  Great was the booty, and the Indians who went on that expedition were rich and eager for other expeditions.  Not a single one of our men was killed or wounded.  Thus all of them returned to embark, laden with spoils