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]

1604-I605] COMPLAINTS AGAINST CHINESE

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declared the Sangleys to be friends of the Japonese;
and in the rebellion about sixteen years ago, when
the former royal Audiencia of these islands commanded and caused to be executed Don Agustin and
Don Martin Panga, Indian chiefs from Tondo, they
found a Japonese implicated in the plots and the
rebellion, and hanged him in the plaza here at Manila. There is no one that does not know the wellfounded rumors and suspicions that have been afloat
to the effect that the king of Japon wished to come
against this city. It is likewise a matter of importance that these natives of this new village and district before mentioned, neither sow grain nor have
lands for that purpose, but can only act as peddlers
and wanderers; and as such, must be ready for any
ill deed, especially if there be profit in it- as there
will be, and that a great one, as has been pointed
out. His most reverend Lordship, considering that
he stood alone, has done his utmost to persuade the
lord governor of these islands, Don Pedro de Acuina,
to provide a remedy for an evil so greatly developed
(or rather for so many evils), by removing the said
natives from the vicinity of the said infidel Sangleys;
but the said lord governor would not do it. When
his most reverend Lordship commenced to point out
the great evils attendant on having the said natives
so near the said infidel Sangleys, the remedy was
easy and without difficulty; for the said district and
settlement of natives had but just begun, and they had
not even commenced to build the new Parian of the
infidel Sangleys. Thus, each day the said settlement
grows larger, and its destruction grows every day
more difficult; and later it will be a greater damage
to the said natives to remove them.