given to the Pampangos
and to the men from the provinces of Bay and Bulacan; also that they
should keep the picked and trained men separate, so that these might
be found ready without confusion or disturbance at the first warning.

The cavalry, a suitable number for 600 horses, were finally assembled
by General Don Francisco de Figueroa whom his Lordship had honored with
this command. They were divided into six companies each containing
twenty-five Spaniards, the remainder being cowherds, negroes, and
mulattoes--men very suitable for this service as being dextrous and
inured to hardship. They were mustered in the city and along the
beach in sight of the champans; and were at once divided among the
posts that were most suitable--two companies in Cavite, and the rest
in the environs of Tondo.

All the Sangleys in the provinces of this mainland [of Luzon] who had
not taken refuge in the Parian in time were decapitated. Those who
thus took refuge were confined to the point of Cavite or to the Parian
of the city, so that we might keep them within range of our guns,
and where they would be of advantage for whatever had to be done for
the fortification of both posts and the protection of the shore. His
Lordship commanded that lists be made of [the Sangleys engaged in the
different] crafts, reserving as many of these as were deemed sufficient
for the needs of the city and service; and he ordered that of all the
rest as many as space could be found for should be shipped [to China],
compelling the captains to transport them. There was one champan which
took aboard 1,300 of them; they were so crowded together that they
could hardly sit down; but in this the captain had no small profit,
for they exacted from each one ten pesos as passage-money.

When the champans were ready to weigh anchor, his Lordship was
informed that the two chief leaders of the people who had fled to the
mountains had come down in the last bands. These two were infidels;
one was the contractor for the slaughterhouses, 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 the