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]

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try; and the Catholic faith would have perished here,
which has cost so much to the king our lord for its
establishment and support. Owing to the loss of life
inflicted on them so justly at that time, they have
become irritated, both those who remained alive,
who now maintain the new Parian - which has been
built on a part of the site of the old one, close to the
village of Indians above referred to- and likewise
those that live in Great China, where their brothers
and kinsmen are. These also had a part of their
property burned. And this witness knows that the
said Chinese are a people full of craft in all they undertake, and that they can in one way or another turn
the mind to any rebellion or uprising. This witness heard Ensign Christoval Gomez - who was sent
as ambassador to the province of Myndanao by the
governor of these islands, Don Pedro de Acuina, and
who came back to this city - say concerning a ship
of infidel Chinese, which was in Myndanao and came
armed to the port of this city, where it at present is,
that the infidel Chinese of this ship while they were
in Mindanao persuaded the said people of Mindanao
to come to these islands in an armed fleet, encouraged
them to do this, and gave them many supplies of war,
catans, and metal to make artillery, powder, and battle-axes; and the said ensign added, to this witness,
that these Chinese were great rascals, and that they
ought all to be in the galleys. Further, he told this
witness that they did not come to the port of this
city of their own will, but were forced to it by winds;
and that another vessel had gone to the island of
Xolo for the same reason. And, both for this and
on account of the hatred they bear for us, this witness knows that they will do all in their power to