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. 2]

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took no notice, the latter and his son were murdered.
Soon afterward the two chief conspirators quarreled;
and the pilot, forestalling the intention of the master
to arrest him, hanged the latter. Then the pilot resolved to return to Spain by the Strait of Magellan,
promising to make rich men of all who would follow
him, but intending to abandon on some island those
who were not favorable to him. Under pretext of
wintering at a small islet near the island of Barbudos,
he contrived to have the greater part of the men disembark. The ecclesiastic Juan de Viveros, who accompanied the expedition, discovering the pilot's intention to abandon some of the party, remonstrated
with the latter's chief adviser, saying that " it was inhuman, and he should take them to the Filipinas, and
leave them where there were provisions," but to no
purpose. Each man lost all confidence in his fellows,
and certain of the men, forming a counter mutiny in
the king's name, seized the vessel and set their course
for the Philippines, abandoning Lope Martin and
twenty-six men on this island. The leader of this second mutiny hanged two men who were concerned in
the death of the captain. Finally, after many hardships, the Ladrones and later the Philippines were
reached. The notary of the ship was tried and executed by Legazpi as an accomplice in the captain's
death. The others concerned in the mutiny were all
pardoned. This new contingent" made homage anew,
and swore to obey his majesty and the governor in his
royal name." 3 The master-of-camp having been sent
about this time to Panay to collect the tributes of rice,
73 A detailed relation of the voyage of the " San Geronimo "
was written by Juan Martinez, a soldier, being dated Cebu, July
25, I567. It is given in Col. doc. ined. Ultramar, ii, no. 47, pp.
371-475. From the very first the insubordination of the pilot Lope