The Philippine Islands, 1493-1803; explorations by early navigators, descriptions of the islands and their peoples, their history and records of the Catholic missions, as related in contemporaneous books and manuscripts, showing the political, economic, commericial and religious conditions of those islands from their earliest relations with European nations to the beginning of the nineteenth century; [Vol. 1, no. 36]

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his Lordship had taken ever since May 26, when he
ordered that one of the champans should be made
ready for the voyage, promising its captain beforehand a thousand Sangleys, whom he must without
fail transport. He commanded one of the three
champans that were at Cavite to come to Manila;
this was to open the door wide in the face of their
mistrust, and it showed that his intention was only to
make the country safe and not to avenge on them (as
they had believed) the insolence of Cot-sen.
The fugitives thereupon came down in all haste
and especially on the day that had been set, June 4;
yet notwithstanding this, so great was the anxiety to
feed on the wretched Sangleys that [some people
attempted to] persuade his Lordship that the whole
arrangement was a sham; that all the Sangleys were
still in the field, and that they only came down from
their camp on this pretext, in order to search for
what they needed and to carry away the few who remained in the Parian. His Lordship, giving another day of vigilance, apparently yielded to the
importunate outcries of the many who clamored for
the punishment of the Sangleys - who had committed no crime except their terrified flight; and ordered the soldiers to be made ready in order that he
might freely select the troops who were to go out for
the campaign.
The bowmen of Master-of-camp Don Juan Macapagal had already arrived, also the 200 Pampango
veteran soldiers in charge of Master-of-camp Don
Francisco Lacsamana. He [i.e., his Lordship] commanded them to be mustered on June 6; and when
all were expecting [that he would select] a strong