and, dividing their forces into several small squadrons, sacked and
burned the villages of Poro, Baybay, Sogor, Cabalian, Basey, Dangajon,
Guinobatan, and Capul. They killed Captain Gabriel de la Pena; they
captured an official of the same class, Ignacio de la Cueva, and the
Jesuit father Buenaventura Barcena; they went even to the mountains
in pursuit of the religious; and all the Indians whom they caught
they carried away as captives to their own country, killing many of
all ages and classes.

The governor-general of the islands sent a squadron to pursue the
pirates, but they accomplished nothing. From Zamboanga Adjutant
Francisco Alvarez went out alone to encounter them; he captured the
caracoa of the pirate Gani, a relative of Sale, and of thirty captives
whom the latter was carrying away. Alvarez freed twenty-two--afterward
going to an island of Jolo, where he captured twelve Moros. Bobadilla,
in answer to his message, on November 8 received pressing orders to
return to Manila without loss of time, the governor yielding so far
as to allow that he might leave in the fortress of Zamboanga at most
fifty Spaniards. This was equivalent to condemning those unfortunates
to a sure death, and the Jesuit fathers protested against it, saying
that necessarily they would incur the same fate; but finally the
supreme authority of the islands decided upon the total abandonment
of the posts above mentioned. Nevertheless Bobadilla, with the object
of encouraging the Lutaos and leading the Moros to believe that he
was not abandoning the post, sent in pursuit of them Don Juan de
Morales Valenzuela, with two caracoas, to the islands called "Orejas
de Liebre," on January 2, 1663; but on the fourth of the same month
he received a new and more positive order from the captain-general,
dated October 11, that without delay or any excuse he must abandon
Zamboanga. At sight of this, Bobadilla warned Morales that the
withdrawal must be made, as was done on the seventh--as promptly as
possible fulfilling the said imperious mandate, convinced that it
was now altogether impossible to oppose so plain a decision.

The governor of Zamboanga made a solemn surrender of the fort to the
master-of-camp of the Lutao natives, Don Alonso Macombon, receiving
from him an oath of fidelity to hold it for the king of Espana
and defend it from his enemies; but Don Alonso refused to include
among these the sultan of Mindanao, on the pretext that he had not
suffi