such a number arrived at Mindanao; and that their captain-general was drowned.  He was the son of Silongan, king of Mindanao.  Those who stayed behind to fight fought so bravely that the outcome was doubtful; for the captain told me that they fought like lions.  Thus had the company [of the three caracoas] been destroyed, and our men would have been in danger, for even yet the other four caracoas had not arrived.  Finally, the enemy’s flagship was sunk, and others foundered, while other boats took to flight through fear of the firing, or allowed themselves to fall aside.  Our men killed many, and those who escaped, defended themselves cutlass in hand, while swimming.  Then approaching the island, our boats ceased firing, in order to capture the enemy alive, so that they might have rowers for their galleys.  On this account about eighty landed.  The Indians seized a small height in order to defend themselves, whereat our men were about to open fire on them.  As soon as our men were ashore, father Fray Martin de San Nicolas—­who, more courageous than those who did not come, was in the midst of the whole action, encouraging our men—­went to the Indians, and talked to and assured them so that they gave up their arms and surrendered.  I think that the captain gave two of those slaves to the order to serve in whatever convent the superior should think best.  The remainder were taken to Octong, some of whom were sold, and others placed in the galleys, and those were the most secure.  Since that fleet, although innumerable fleets have gone to attack the enemy who infest the islands, they have never had good success, or closed with them while the enemy have gone in and out from the islands every year, to the great loss of the country—­doubtless a chastisement on us.

[Several miraculous occurrences in various places are recounted, all of which caused wonder.  Medina continues:]

Our father Baraona, as he loved the province of Bisayas so dearly, went through it, abandoning some houses and occupying others, and exchanging and returning still others.  And, in fact, although he did it for the best, experience has proved that it has been bad for us.  He exchanged Aclan for Barbaran; and although the latter is on the river Panay, it is a convent needy of all things, and has the most perverse people, whom even yet we have been unable to subdue.  The former was very fine in all ways, and convenient for us; and within its gates it is well supplied with all necessaries, both for itself and for other convents.  And although it is true that it could have been returned to the order, because at the death of its first secular priest, the bishop gave it.  But the order made so little effort that it was lost; for for what any other order would give a thousand flights, we let slip for the sake of two steps of work.