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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verbum and letter for letter, at the request of the said
governor Miguel Lopez de Lagazpi, who signed the
same here with his name. And they are accurate and
true, witnesses of the correction and comparison with
the originals thereof being Miguel Lopez, Francisco
de Cosar, and Juan de Gamboa y Lezcano, soldiers
in this camp - in testimony whereof I have made my
usual signature and rubric. Given at qubu, the second day of the month of June in the year one thousand five hundred and sixty-nine.
In testimony of the truth, FERNANDO RIQUEL)
(This copy was written on twenty-three sheets of
paper, including the present, and bears the corrections, erasures, and interlineations following: [These
follow, in the original document.] And note should
be taken that the contract was corruptly and badly
written for so it was in the original.)
(In the City of Mexico, on the twenty-third day of
the month of December in the year one thousand five
hundred and sx&ty-nine, the presidents and auditors
of the royal Audiencia of Nueva Spafia said that, inasmuch as in a docket of letters and despatches from
Miguel Lopez de Legaspi, governor and captain in
the islands of the West, which came addressed to this
royal Audiencia, this relation was found therein of
negotiations between the said governor and GonSalo
Pereira, a Portuguese, captain of the most serene
King of Portugal, regarding the summons repeatedly
served, to the effect that the said Miguel Lopez
should depart from the islands, region, and spot,
where he was situated as is declared in the said relation, it is fitting that this docket be sent to his Majesty in his royal Council of the Indies. In order
that entire faith may be given thereto, a judicial