[At Oc-Kin, the viceroy grants the fathers cordial and dignified audience.  At the request of the former the fathers present him with a paper in which they state their object and desire, namely, the preaching of the gospel.  The viceroy requests a book of the Christian law, whereupon he is presented with a breviary, as the fathers have no other book with them.  After hearing an exposition of the Christian doctrine, the viceroy dismisses the Augustinians, loading them with rich presents.  Three captains are ordered to see them safely to Manila.  To the letter of the Spanish governor, the viceroy replied as follows:]

Letter from the kingdom of Tangbin in the province of Oc-Kin, from the royal house

I received a letter, to which this is the reply, from the governor in the fort of Manila.  To thee, who art born of heaven.  Although we differ among ourselves, we are children of one father and of one mother.  Therefore we love and regard you as friends and brothers.  And likewise have we friendship with the Loquios, a foreign people, who come as friends to this province of Oc-Kin every three years.  They, in token of friendship, bring us some products of their country, which this country does not produce.  Here we present to them other things unknown to their own country.  Therefore shalt thou know that we protect and esteem greatly the foreigners who come hither.

We have ordered the fathers and Castilians to be supplied with all necessaries, so that they might lack nothing.  For if they should lack anything, we would be grieved and ashamed.  And besides this, we have offered and given them some things, all of which is placed in a memorandum.  The ten vessels that are going to your shores are furnished with all necessaries, so that you shall not have any trouble in giving them what they shall peradventure ask of you.  The captains and sailors, and the rest of the crew, are paid for ten months.

We have written to the king the extent of our information, so that he may know what is passing.  We would like the fathers to remain here, and more, until we shall hear and see the king’s reply.  But as the voyages are long, namely, three months to go and three to return, we thought that you would grieve over their absence.  Therefore, we return them to you and send with them a small present.  All the present is in charge and keeping of my captain.  If any of it be lacking, he will be punished.  Given in the year of the king the lion Huicbanlic [i.e., Wanleh].

[After a stay of thirty-five days in Oc-Kin, the fathers, still accompanied by the two soldiers, Loarca and Sarmiento, set out on their return, being banqueted and feasted at all the cities on their way.  They set sail for Manila September 14, and arrived there, “part of them October 28, and the others November 1.  When they arrived they found a new governor, for Doctor Francisco de Sande had reached the islands in the month of August of the year 1575, with his Majesty’s