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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send back the Sangleys who have survived the war,
and pay the money due for the goods taken from the
Sangleys, there will be amity between this kingdom
and that, and merchant vessels will sail there every
year. If not, the king will not permit merchant vessels to make the voyage, but will command a thousand vessels of war to be built with a force of soldiers - relatives of the deceased, and inhabitants of
the other nations and kingdoms that pay tribute to
China; and, without having mercy upon anyone, they
will make war, and afterward the kingdom of Luzon
will be given to that people which will pay tribute to
China. [On the margin: " Those who pay tribute
are Siang, Cochinchina, and Corea."]
(The letter of the inspector-general was written
on the twelfth of the second month, which, according to our reckoning, is March of the [blank in MS.]
year of the reign of Bandel.88 The letter of the
eunuch was written on the sixteenth of the same
month and year; and that of the viceroy on the
twenty-second of the same month and year.)
8 Apparently a corrupt phonetic rendering of the name of
Wan-Leh, then emperor of China (VOL. III, p. 228). As he succeeded his father in 1572, the blank date here must refer to the
thirty-third year of his reign (1605).