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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village and another Indian - a chief from Mindoro,
who frequently went to the said village-whether
there had been more Sangleys. They answered that
as many as six other Sangleys had lived there, in this
said Indian village, for more than two months. This
witness knows further that, by a strenuous effort made
by the said archbishop, the said Chinese were removed from the said village. This procedure was
public, as was also the fact that the said archbishop
had informed Sefor Don Pedro de Acufia, governor
of these islands, that the Chinese were among these
Indians, and that the said lord governor sent to investigate this an ensign of the guard, who returned
and told the said lord governor that the said Sangleys
were not there; or at any rate the said governor so
understood the said ensign. But as the lord archbishop was certain of the truth, he told the said lord
governor, in the presence of all the people, that they
were deceiving him, and that the said infidel Sangleys were among the said natives of the said village.
As the lord governor was not yet satisfied, he himself
went in person to the said Parian, and, from the bank
of the stream, called for the Sangleys who were living in the said village with the natives; immediately the said' three infidel Sangleys came into
the presence of the said lord governor. This witness
asked them how long they had been there, and they
answered that they had been there three months, and
had come from Zebu. This was heard by the lord
governor, who was present, and by other persons who
were accompanying him. Then the said lord governor ordered the said Sangleys to leave the said village straightway. And the said village of the said
natives is, at this very day, as has been said, in the