he was
rebellious. He treacherously killed thirteen Spanish soldiers. When
news of this was brought, Juan Pacho was sent to take the troops of
La Caldera in charge; and, when it should seem best to him, to try to
inflict punishment on the king of Jolo. Having gone out to inflict the
said punishment with six hundred Spaniards, the enemy unfortunately
killed the said Juan Pacho and twenty-nine Spaniards, the rest of them
retiring without any success. This news having come to the governor,
he sent in place of Juan Pacho Captain Toribio de Miranda, a person
in whom he had entire confidence, with an order not to attempt any
punishment until he had force enough for it. After this Captain Toribio
de Miranda arrived at La Caldera on the twenty-sixth of August in
ninety-nine. When the garrison was given into his charge he put the
defensive works in order; and with the arms which he brought, and
those which he found in the fort, he armed all the troops, amounting
to a hundred and fourteen soldiers. As directed by an order of the
governor, he sent a chief of the Pintados to Mindanao with letters to
the chiefs of the island, in which he informed them that they would be
protected, favored, and upheld in justice, as vassals of his Majesty,
and that with this object a garrison had been placed in La Caldera;
and that to aid in maintaining it, and in covering the expenses
which they had caused in the war by their disobedience, the largest
possible quantity of tributes would be collected for his Majesty, and
that he would send for them shortly--which had not been done earlier
because the Mindanaos had been so spent and afflicted. Having arrived
on the second of September at the river of Mindanao, and delivered
his despatch, this chief was well received, and found the people
in the settled state in which General Don Juan Ronquillo had left
them. Adiamora, the main chief of Mindanao, in the name of them all,
sent him back on the fifteenth of the said month, offering to give
to his Majesty all the tribute which they could collect.

At this time--news from the chief captain of Malaca having reached
the governor, to the effect that in the Sunda, [15] a hundred and
fifty leagues from that port, there had been seen a number of English
ships, whose designs were not known; and, a little later, word from
the commander of the fort of Maluco that there were at Terrenate,
within the port, two English ships with four hundred men and fifty
pieces of a