owing impatient, he returned to Manila, leaving affairs in that
condition. With the vessels that came from China this year of 605
to this city, the eunuch sent three letters--one to the governor,
another to the Audiencia, and the third to the archbishop. All were
similar. The eunuch stated that he had received the letters taken by
the ambassador. The people who had been killed were very properly
killed, as they were an abandoned people. By the information that
he had received from some Sangleys he learned that many Sangleys had
been condemned to the galleys. He asked for them in his letters since
they were still living, asking that they be sent with the property
that had been taken from them. If not, then he would go there with
a war-fleet of one hundred armed ships and conquer their land, and
give the same to others who better merited it. [24] The governor, with
the advice of the others, answered this letter to the effect that he
refused to send the Sangleys; and that before the one hundred armed
ships reached here, he would go to meet them with five hundred, for he
would rejoice to put an end to such canaille, and had enough men to do
it. This letter was given to a Sangley, one Juan de San, a prominent
man among them, and very wealthy, who had lived many years among us,
that he might give it to the eunuch. This man and others who came
in this year of 605 brought news that in [the province of] Canton,
three hundred leguas in the interior, a river overflowed so that it
drowned two hundred thousand Sangley Indians, and much property was
lost. It was also said that earthquakes had occurred, two hundred
leguas in the interior, and as far as Canton, which lasted for two
months. They were so terrific that they shook the very strong palaces,
while other houses and mosques were overthrown. This misfortune and
plague has been by the permission of heaven. At another part, the
Japanese of Great Corria have revolted, and are warring with these
Chinese, so that four hundred thousand of them have banded against
the latter, by which the Chinese are receiving great injury. [25]
Thus, by these and other things, the Chinese are being consumed and
finished, although much time is needed for it. May God be mindful of
us, as He is able, and ever give us His protection.

[A list of the chief Spanish inhabitants of Manila who were killed
during the Chinese insurrection follows. It contains such well-known
names as Luyz Perez de las Marinas, J