Cot-sen was
walking one afternoon through the fort on Hermosa Island which he had
gained from the Dutch. His mind began to be disturbed by visions, which
he said appeared to him, of thousands of men who placed themselves
before him, all headless and clamoring for vengeance on the cruelty
and injustice which had been wreaked on them; accordingly, terrified
at this vision (or else a lifelike presentation by his imagination)
he took refuge in his house and flung himself on his bed, consumed
by a fierce and burning fever. This caused him to die on the fifth
day, fiercely scratching his face and biting his hands--without any
further last will than to charge his intimate friends with the death
of his son, or more repentance for his cruelty than to continue it
by the orders that he gave for them to kill various persons; thus
God interrupted by his death many cruel punishments.

Moreover, some mandarins were pacified who were resentful because
the alcaldes of Pangasinan and Cagayan had seized some goods from
their agents; and the father ambassador made satisfactory answers
to the complaints made on account of the incorrect reports of the
fugitives. The Chinese therefore solicited peace, and the continuance
of the trade. This was a piece of good-fortune so timely that it
enabled us to send this year a ship to Nueva Espana for the usual aid,
the building of this ship having been stopped for lack of iron; for,
since the iron which came in three ships from China had been bought
on his Majesty's account, it became necessary to beg iron from the
religious orders and the citizens and to tear out the few iron gratings
which such emergencies as these had left in the city. This necessarily
made evident to that [Chinese] nation how greatly we depend on them
for our means of support.

The ambassador, Fray Victorio Riccio, finally came hither on April 8
with news of the peace; it had been concluded so much to our favor
that no further conditions were imposed beyond the restitution of
the property which had remained here placed in the hands of private
citizens, and that which the alcaldes-mayor had withheld in Cagayan
and Pangasinan. Thus the country was quieted, and all its people
were freed from the affliction which the haughty and cruel kingdom
of China had caused us by its threats.

The people who followed this corsair amounted to over a million
of men of war alone. The champans (which are their ships), large
and small, numbered 15,