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]

1649-1666] EVENTS IN MANILA, I662-63

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bringing to port on that very day the patache which
came from Nueva Espafia, July 13, when people
were becoming discouraged by the delay of the
second advice-boat.
His Lordship gave orders to collect in the Parian
all the remaining Sangleys under penalty of death
to any who should leave it; and although in a few
days he gave them more space, it did not extend beyond the range of the artillery. With the same
severity he compelled them to sleep within the Parian; and as the regiment from Cagayan came unexpectedly- a warlike people, who, as they belong to
a province so remote, cannot wait for news of the
necessity, but can only forestall it - he lodged these
near the Parian in full readiness for any disturbance.
The regiments of Caragas, Cebuans, and Boholans
arrived; the Caragas were sent to the point of Cavite,
and the rest were quartered in La Estacada,5 the Cagayans proceeding to Santa Cruz. With these
forces the river was thoroughly occupied from the
bar to the upper reaches, and its passage was closed
to the Sangleys. The same plan was observed with
the cavalry, the two companies at Cavite being
quartered in the fields there and the rest in Binondo
and Meyhaligue. The Sangleys were thus more
thoroughly imprisoned than if they were in the jail.
From the first day [of the commotion] his Lordship directed all his efforts to supplying the city with
provisions, and succeeded in bringing in I 20,00
50 La Estacada (literally "the stockade") was on the same
side of the Pasig River as Binondoc, but separated from that
village by the little estuary which leads to the village of Tondo.
See Mufioz's map of Manila and its suburbs (I671) in Pastells's
edition of Colin's Labor evangelica, iii, p. 824; this map will be
reproduced in the present series.