wenty thousand who were infidels. The governor having seen that
they were killing all the Sangleys in the islands, ordered, for just
reasons, that none of those coming to the city should be killed. As
soon as this news was given out, about four hundred came. Had they
been ten thousand, they would have been received, for they were
needed in the city. They all accused Bautistilla, a Christian, who, as
above stated, was their governor, saying that he was the cause of the
insurrection, and that he had been made king of all the country. They
also accused Miguel Onte and Alonso Sagoyo--both Christian Sangleys,
and the chiefest men. Having taken their depositions, and through the
sufficient proof that was furnished, since all blamed Bautistilla,
the latter was condemned to be hanged and quartered, and his head
set in the Parian. He was declared a traitor, and his property
confiscated for his Majesty. His houses were razed and their sites
sown with salt. This sentence proceeded from the royal Audiencia, and
was executed on the eleventh of the month of October. At the foot of
the scaffold he said that that death was not due him for his conduct,
and that he had always been a loyal vassal of his Majesty; and that
God knew what was in his breast, and the thoughts of his heart. He
died with the marks of a good Christian. Then on the fifteenth day of
the said month, the two Christian Sangleys were executed. They were
condemned by the sargento-mayor and master-of-camp. One of them, in
order to save himself, declared that the mandarins had come with the
cunning purpose of spying out the land, and that the insurrection had
been by their orders. He said that they were coming soon to attack
the city, and that the Spaniards should not neglect to act very
carefully. Accordingly the governor set about taking all necessary
measures. He and the sargento-mayor worked in a way wonderful to
behold. May God strengthen their hands! Four days later, when the enemy
had fortified themselves quite strongly in San Pablo, Captain Don Luys
de Velasco went out at the head of sixty Spaniards. Having reached the
_calaco_, he attacked so spiritedly that the Sangleys retreated. He
entered the camp of the enemy in his eagerness, whereupon, uttering
loud cries, they returned in a large mob to attack him, so that it
cost him his life and those of four soldiers. The others, on seeing
their captain killed, retreated and went down the mountain. This
news reached the