cured aid from Luis Perez Dasmarinas for the exiled
king of Cambodia; but Morga says (p. 46) that this was done against
his advice and that of other leading officers.

[18] Francisco Ortega (thus Perez; but de Ortega in the MSS. which we
follow) made profession in the Augustinian order, at Toledo--in 1564,
according to Perez, but various allusions in this document render
1554 a more satisfactory date. Two years later he went to Mexico,
and thence (about 1570) to the Philippines. In 1575, when he was a
missionary in Mindoro, he barely escaped death at the hands of the
natives, and was then appointed prior of the convent of Manila. In
1580 he went to Spain as commissary for the Philippine province of
the order; and ten years afterward returned to the Philippines with
a considerable body of missionaries. In 1597 Ortega was transferred
to Mexico, where he died in 1601.

[19] In MS. _dos_ (two); evidently an error for _doce_ (twelve).

[20] In the original, _las galeras que estan la Havana_. It must be
remembered that these Ortega papers are in abstract only--apparently
summarized for the use of the royal council by some clerk, who may
have been more familiar with affairs in Nueva Espana than in the
Philippines. _La Havana_ is probably his error or conjecture for
_a Cavite_.

[21] Carbajal was the captain in whose ship sailed Pedro Bautista,
envoy of Dasmarinas to Japan (_Vol_. VIII, note 33). A full account
of this embassy is given by La Concepcion in _Hist. de Philipinas_,
ii, pp. 341--376.

[22] Miguel de Benavides (born about 1550) came to the Philippines as
a member of the first Dominican mission band (1587). Three years later
he went to China as a missionary; returning to Manila, he accompanied
Salazar to Spain (1592). He was created the first bishop of the new
diocese of Nueva Segovia, and afterward archbishop of Manila; he died
in that city on July 26, 1605. To him was due the foundation of the
college of Santo Tomas.

[23] Ignacio de Santibanez, a Franciscan, was appointed first
archbishop of Manila; he then went to Nueva Espana, where he was
consecrated in 1596, but did not take possession of his see until
1598. His term of office lasted less than three months, for he died
on August 14 of the same year.

[24] The maravedi was a money of account; thirty-four made a real (see
_Vol_. III, p. 177). A royal decree dated June 14, 1595, granted to
Santibanez an annuity of 500,000 maravedis from Salazar's death un