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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houses, named Barba, and the other a shopkeeper
named [blank space in MS.]; and by the help of
some of their followers they had been hidden, so that
they could go away in the first champans. We had
certain information that these men were among the
people on shipboard, but all the efforts of the officials were frustrated by the dissimulation of the
Sangleys until his Lordship resorted to direct measures, and, summoning the ship-captains, commanded
them to find and surrender those two men, saying
that if they did not he would order their heads to be
cut off. All were terrified and within a few hours
they dragged out the two culprits by the neck - one
from the champan on which he had embarked; the
other from a hut in which he had hidden himself.
On the following day they were executed between
the Parian and the city in sight of the Sangleys.
They had ruled tyrannically, and with their deaths
our fear passed away, having inflicted due punishment with so little bloodshed.
The champans departed one after another; and on
the day when the last three - those of the ambassador
and two others which he carried in his convoy - were
to set sail, which was June io, his Lordship ordered
that the chimes should be rung as a token of rejoicing over false news of the ships from Nueva Espafa
(which he caused to be published), artfully brought
in by an advice-boat. This was done in order that
the ambassador and the Sangleys, persuaded that we
had received succor of men and money, might with
this belief aid in repressing the fierceness of the barbarian, artfully supplying what was lacking in our
reputation for strength. But God, who directs the
hearts of rulers, made the bells ring for true news,