ther Bartolome Besco and the Sangley Raimundo to
the place where the fugitives were encamped. On the way he encountered
some companies of seamen from the champans and other riff-raff, who
were ignorant of the agreement for the submission of their fellows;
and these would not allow the fathers to pass. But when this was known
at their camp two of their leading men went down to the father and told
him that they all would follow his advice; but that Raimundo was not
a suitable person for settling the matter with them, because many of
the Sangleys were suspicious of him on account of his long residence
among us. They told the father to bring two of their ship-captains,
so that this business might be concluded with them. The father retired
to San Juan del Monte, in order to say mass there the next day, the
twenty-eighth (which was the feast of Pentecost), and sent word to
his Lordship of what the Sangleys demanded.

In accordance with this his Lordship on the twenty-eighth summoned
the ship-captains, and after he had conferred with them they went
back to the father and told him that it was not necessary that he
should fatigue himself by going to the [Sangley] camp, since all
the fugitives had already agreed to come down. They only asked that
the ships might go to Nabotas, from which place all the Sangleys who
had to embark for China would sail; and that the father would, for
this purpose, go there in company with the regimental master-of-camp,
Domingo de Ugarte, who was very acceptable to them and well known for
his kindness to them. On the thirtieth they came down with this reply;
and on the thirty-first the father went back with it to confer with his
Lordship. The latter was ill pleased with the stipulation of embarking
at Navotas on account of the lack of confidence that they displayed;
but the father set out to bring them over to whatever his Lordship
should ordain, as he finally decided it--departing on the first
of June accompanied by Master-of-camp Domingo de Ugarte and three
ship-captains. They arrived that night at the village of Taytay, the
nearest village to the place that the Sangleys had occupied; and that
very night they despatched the ship-captains fully instructed. On the
next day, June 2, the captains came down with the reply and decision
of all the Sangleys--that they would come down to the Parian from
which they would embark in the champans which were ready to depart;
while the Christians would come down t