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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commanded to go away immediately to Luzon, for
fear that they had come for piratical purposes; and
that they should carry word to the inhabitants of
Luzon not to give credit to a deceitful and lying set
of Chinese. He also commanded the two Sangleys
who had piloted the English to be immediately executed. As for the other things that we had written
to him he declared that our will should be done. Immediately, after having received this document, we -
the viceroy, the eunuch, and I - sent these documents
to the governor of Luzon, that his Lordship might
know the greatness of the king of China and of his
realm (for they are so great that he governs everything upon which the moon and the sun shine), and
likewise that the governor of Luzon may know the
great justice with which this vast realm is governed.
It is long since anyone has dared to give offense to
this kingdom; and although the Japonese have endeavored to disturb Corea, which is under the government of China, they have been unable to succeed
therewith, and have been driven from the said kingdom, and'Corea has remained in great peace and quiet,
as the people of Luzon know well from what has been
told them. [At the beginning of this paragraph, and
on the margin: They knew that the English are
our friends."]
Last year, after we learned that, as a result of the
deceit of Tiognen, so many Chinese had been put to
death in Luzon, many mandarins assembled to agree
upon urging the king to take vengeance for all these
deaths. We said that the land of Luzon was a
wretched land of little importance, of old inhabited
only by devils and snakes; and that, as a result of the
immigration there a few years ago of so many San