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. 13]

LETTERS TO FELIPE III FROM PEDRO
DE ACUNA
On the Sangleys
Sire:
The two ships which came this year from Nueva
Hespaina arrived in sight of these islands on the
tenth of last month, and the captain made the port
of Cavite on St. John's day. The Almiranta, not
being so good a ship, could not follow him, and remained on the shoal of Mindoro until the fifth of
the present month, which caused great loss. The
viceroy of Nueva Hespafia writes me that the cause
of these ships leaving Acapulco so late was because
they had met this despatch and that of the Conde de
Monterey for Peru, and that for the coming year he
will see to it that it is earlier. This is necessary, for
it has likewise been unavoidable, on this account,
that those who were going back to Nueva Hespafia
should be late in leaving here; for the Sangley merchants, taking warning from the many losses which
they have suffered, and the neglect of the Spaniards
to pay them during years past, will not give up their
cloth without first seeing the silver at hand. Accordingly they waited until the money came before
buying the goods and making up the packages and
cases, all of which used to run on credit.