Parian
had been burned. As men determined to conquer or die they came that
night in two machines that they had made with so great skill that one
side was low and the other high so that they overtopped the walls of
the city; thus they could with very little trouble throw thirty men
into the city each time when they attacked. Behind these machines
came a great throng of Sangleys, of whom the fury of the artillery
killed a great number. At the same time the artillery broke up the
machines. At this juncture reenforcements of one thousand men entered
the city--Pampanga Indians, comprising arquebusiers and pikemen. They
sallied out with some Spaniards and attacked the enemy. They killed
more than a thousand of them and set fire to the rest of the Parian. In
the fire three hundred of the most important and richest merchants were
burned. These, in order not to die at the hands of our men, hanged
themselves and burned themselves alive with their belongings. The
Japanese, seeing that the Pampanga Indians were destroying and sacking
the Parian with great fury, gradually joined them. Together they
killed all the Chinese whom they met, and went away, this man with a
chest, this one with a pair of breeches, [and others with] bags filled
with silks and rich articles. But no Spaniard had any leave to take
part in the sack. However, some who took part in it, at all hazards,
profited very much from the enemy. The sack lasted all the afternoon
and part of the night. The enemy, upon seeing the Parian burned in
every part, and their goods lost, were discouraged. Having held a
council that night, they very silently went to a village called San
Pablo. They were pursued by Don Luys de Velasco with five hundred
Spaniards and one thousand Indians, by order of Governor Don Pedro
de Acuna, before they reached San Pablo. The Sangleys killed of our
men six Spaniards and four Japanese, but it cost them fifteen hundred
of their men. So great was their number, and the confusion among all
of them, that our men did not hesitate to kill as many of them as
they met on the road and elsewhere. The governor immediately sent
word to his Majesty's villages and ordered them not to spare any,
but to put to the sword whomsoever they found. Of all the Chinese,
except thirty who were taken to the city--and who died Christians,
to all appearances, for they asked for the water of holy baptism--no
others are known to have taken the road to salvation, out of more
than t