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. 36]

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be, either for that purpose or for affairs in the city,
an officer to take his own place when absent.
While the governor was at the warehouses the first
embassy sent by the Sangleys found him; it came by
Father Francisco Mesina, who said that those who
had crossed over to Santa Cruz were in the greatest
uncertainty, and would return to their obedience if
he would pardon them. During the time which the
father spent in this mission the scoundrels who had
approached the gate, and in the first onslaught had
killed two Spaniards, finished crossing the river;
these fled in confusion by way of the Parian, and
completed the terrorization of the other Sangleys,
most of whom therefore went out to Sagar and others
to Meysilo.
Father Mesina returned with pardon for them and
found it necessary to pursue them. He continued
his endeavors by means of the father mandarin,46
giving him a paper written in the Chinese language
[to assure them] of entire safety. Although the latter set out with it, he did not reach the Sangleys, and
Father Francisco Mesina sent his despatch by a messenger whom he encountered, placing it in the hands
of a boy who carried it; for lack of a horse, he himself remained at Meyhaligue.
Fathers Nicolas Cani and Bartolome Vesco, who
mounted on good horses had been pushing ahead
since noon, went as far as San Francisco del Monte
where they encountered some troops. They fell in
with the soldiers and talked with them about bringing in the Sangleys; it was finally decided that Father
46 Referring to the Dominican Riccio, who with the title of
mandarin had brought Kue-sing's message.