for it was very poor and overburdened.  Father Fray Hernando Becerra went to Manila to read theology.  Although he did this only for a short time, yet he became very renowned throughout the islands, and in consequence was cordially received by the other orders.  Thence the father visitor came to Manila to assist in the superior government of the province, although the government of our father, Fray Miguel Garcia, was such that, when he was there, no one else was needed.

In the year 1613, the ships with the reenforcements arrived in good shape from Nueva Espana.  In them came that company of religious above mentioned as being sent by Bishop Solier.  Father Fray Juan de Montemayor, their leader, who brought them from Nueva Espana, did it as well as he could; but there most of the religious, finding themselves tired out by the severe voyage, and the breadth of the land and its mildness and beauty inviting them, and that first courage having been lost with which they had left their native land and country, separated in a thousand directions, so that very few of that flock were left.  These embarked and set sail in the port of Acapulco, March 25, 1613, without enough provisions; and even in what provision they had so little judgment was shown that they arrived as if by a miracle.  Such was their need that when they arrived at the Embocadero, which is about eighty leguas from Manila, they had to disembark, and go from island to island, selling what few clothes they had left.  There the fathers of the Society, who have charge of those missions, performed toward them a thousand acts of charity, by means of which they sustained life until, thus broken and with innumerable necessities, they reached Sugbu.  Of a truth, they were ill advised; for, since they were already in the islands, they would have been delayed much less in the ships, which were retarded because of the route that they took, which was full of dangers and not a little troublesome.  But the government does not learn.  It is a gift given by God to those who please Him.  Two fathers who remained in the ships arrived promptly and many months before their associates.

The religious in that company were as follows: 

1.  The father master, Fray Pedro Garcia, own brother of our father Fray Miguel Garcia.  He did not come as master, but his brother negotiated that for him upon going to Espana.

2.  Father Fray Juan de Montemayor, one of the greatest preachers who have been in the islands.

3.  Fray Jeronimo Medrano.

4.  Fray Nicolas de Herrera, a preacher, and a prominent religious.

5.  Fray Cristobal de Miranda.  He was the one who, together with the master, Fray Pedro Garcia, refused to disembark.  That religious has been very useful.

6.  Father Fray Hernando de Aguilar, a very honored religious.

7.  Father Fray Bartolome de Salcedo.

8.  Father Fray Jeronimo de Oro.

9.  Father Fray Antonio de los Santos.