After having gained the victory against the people of Achen, Nuno Alvarez Botello determined to remain to winter in the region of the south.  He sent some ships to Java; and with them a large galleon belonging to the enemy, and the commander and captains who were captured.  He kept twenty-three of his galliots, with seven hundred picked men, in order to go in pursuit of the Dutch.

He commenced at Humbe, thirty leguas from Malaca, where, the Dutch have a factory for pepper.  There were two Dutch ships at the bar [of the river] which went out to meet him.  The Portuguese attacked the Dutch ship, which was a very handsome one, and had come from Holanda the year before.  They gave it a volley which fell into a quantity of cartridges and powder, whereupon the ship blew up, although some of the Dutch who fell into the water were picked up.  Then the Portuguese assailed the other ship, captured it, and sent it to Malaca.  They saw that there was another large ship in thus mouth of the river, and attacked that one.  The Dutch who were aboard deserted it.  The Portuguese captured the artillery, ammunition, and other things in the ship, and set it afire.

Learning that there was another ship [up the] river, and that it was lading pepper, the Portuguese determined to go to capture it.  They entered the river, attacked the ship, and, without their knowing how, it blew up.  As the ship sank, a powerful suction was formed, and drew after it the Dutch [i.e., one of the captured ones] skiff in which the commander, Nuno Alvarez Botello, was giving his orders.  The brave gentleman was drowned there, without any one being able to help him; and with him were also drowned his good intentions, and all that that fleet expected to do.

In consequence of the persecution of the king of Conchinchina against the missionaries [9]—­because the commerce of Macao had been lacking for some time, and on account of the great drought that lasted for the space of fourteen months—­Governor Don Juan Nino de Tabora ordered an embassy to be sent to the Said king, and for that purpose sent Father Antonio Cardin with some presents.  The father reached Turon, and thence went to Sinao, the court of the king.  The king took the presents from him, but notwithstanding that received him with very ill grace; and, without conceding him what he asked, made him retire to Macao.

[To the above relation for the years 1629-1630 (which seems to be merely a synopsis or abstract, and not a copy of the original document) is appended the following from another and later relation:]

In the years from July, 1630, until that time in 1632, says a relation, there was great peace, and the Filipinas Islands prospered; for aid from Holanda failed the Dutch, and their forces were too few to trouble the Spanish possessions of the archipelago and the Malucas.  However the quiet was disturbed in the province of Caraga, where the Indians revolted, and assassinated the Spaniards and the Recollect religious who were instructing them.  The leaders of the revolt were punished, and the Indians gradually subdued.