e back to this port from the thirtieth degree
of latitude. Then she sailed in July of 93, from the port of Naga;
and up to the present time nothing is known about her fate. In 1694
a galleon was built that was 72 cubits long [de 72 codos de quilla],
an audacious attempt. It set sail on the eve of St. Peter's day;
and on the following Saturday, while off the shore of Maragondon, it
went to pieces. It was laden with more than twelve thousand packages;
for all the citizens had invested whatever they possessed, in order
to lade this ship, and even the wrought silver and the jewels of the
women had been sold in order to invest their value in stuffs. The
letter was sent by the patache which the governor was despatching
as an express, so that they might know in Mejico and Espana that the
islands were not destroyed.

[Letter by Father Gaspar Marco, [3] July 27, 1694.]

The bishop of Troya was going on, thinking that the government of the
archbishopric belonged to him, and did not ordain the clerics who
presented dismissory letters from the cabildo of Manila--assuming
that the king regarded him as ecclesiastical governor--and that,
in spite of the permit for absence which commanded him to return to
Espana. The cabildo had brought suit against Doctor Nicolas Caraballo,
sentencing him to exile in Nueva Espana. He embarked in the year
1692; but, the galleon having come back to the port of Naga in the
province of Camarines, the bishop of that diocese not only received
and entertained Caraballo, but absolved him and qualified him to hold
any office or benefice. The cabildo of Manila, who had sent a person to
conduct Caraballo to that city, endured this slight and said nothing,
when they knew of the conduct of the bishop of Camarines, in order
not to arouse another dispute. The bishop appointed Caraballo governor
of the bishopric of Cebu, on account of the death of its prelate, in
1692. He began his rule by visiting and punishing the curas, until
he removed the cura of Aclan, named Salazar, and seized his goods,
without allowing him any appeal to the metropolitan. Salazar escaped
to Manila, and informed the cabildo of this; and they commissioned
the cantor, Don Esteban de Olmedo, to arrest Caraballo. The bishop of
Camarines had information of all this, and went in person to protect
him. He arrived twenty-four hours after Olmedo, and arrested the
latter; he passed sentence on him, with the counsel and opinion of
Caraballo himself