m 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 10, his Lordship ordered that
the chimes should be rung as a token of rejoicing over false news
of the ships from Nueva Espana (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, bringing to port on that very day
the patache which came from Nueva Espana, July 13, when people were
becoming discouraged by the delay of the second advice-boat.

His Lordship gave orders to collect in the Parian all the remaining
Sangleys under penalty of death to any who should leave it;
and although in a few days he gave them more space, it did not
extend beyond the range of the artillery. With the same severity he
compelled them to sleep within the Parian; and as the regiment from
Cagayan came unexpectedly--a warlike people, who, as they belong
to a province so remote, cannot wait for news of the necessity,
but can only forestall it--he lodged these near the Parian in full
readiness for any disturbance. The regiments of Caragas, Cebuans, and
Boholans arrived; the Caragas were sent to the point of Cavite, and
the rest were quartered in La Estacada, [50] the Cagayans proceeding
to Santa Cruz. With these forces the river was thoroughly occupied
from the bar to the upper reaches, and its passage was closed to
the Sangleys. The same plan was observed with the cavalry, the two
companies at Cavite being quartered in the fields there and the rest
in Binondo and Meyhaligue. The Sangleys were thus mor