The Philippine Islands, 1493-1898 — Volume 16 of 55: 1609; Explorations by Early Navigators, Descriptions of the Islands and Their Peoples, Their History and Records of the Catholic Missions, as Related in Contemporaneous Books and Manuscripts, Showing the Political, Economic, Commercial and Religious Conditions of Those Islands from Their Earliest Relations with European Nations to the Close of the Nineteenth Century
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The Philippine Islands, 1493-1898 — Volume 16 of 55: 1609; Explorations by Early Navigators, Descriptions of the Islands and Their Peoples, Their History and Records of the Catholic Missions, as Related in Contemporaneous Books and Manuscripts, Showing the Political, Economic, Commercial and Religious Conditions of Those Islands from Their Earliest Relations with European Nations to the Close of the Nineteenth Century
Demarcation line of Alexander VI; Missions -- Philippines; Philippines -- Discovery and exploration; Philippines -- History -- Sources
The fourth. He shall deliver up the Spanish renegades who were in
this fort of Ternate. He answered that there was only one there, and
that he fled like the others the day the fort was taken, and he does
not know where he is, but that he shall be sought and delivered up.
The fifth. That he shall also deliver up all the villages in the
island of Batochina or El Moro, which were formerly Christian; as well
as the islands of Marotay, and Herrao, which were also Christian,
with all the artillery and ammunition in them. He answered that he
is ready to deliver up everything, as he did with his person.
Don Pedro de Acuna, governor and captain-general of the Filipinas
Islands, president of the royal Audiencia resident therein, and
general of this Maluco fleet, entrusted these capitulations to General
Juan Xuarez Gallinato and captain Christoval de Villagra. They made
them in the form above declared, with the help of Pablo de Lima, a
Portuguese native of these islands, who was the interpreter of the
[Moro] language. The said king affixed his signature, according to
his custom. It was done in the fort of Ternate April ten, one thousand
six hundred and six. The said general and captain, and the said Pablo
de Lima, also signed it.
The king signed it in Persian characters with graceful curves, and
the Spaniards simply. This original agreement was brought to Espana
with the other authentic documents.
[Possession is formally taken of the newly-subdued and of the
reconquered territory in the name of the king of Spain; and after
consultation it is determined to take the king of Ternate to Manila,
leaving governors appointed to carry on his government. All swear
homage to the Spanish monarch, and promise not to admit the Dutch
or other foreigners to their clove trade, and not to prevent
missionary work. Acuna orders a new fort to be built at Tidore,
remits a third part of the tribute to be paid by the Ternatans,
and, after strengthening the fort at Terate, leaves Juan de Esquivel
there with six hundred men, boats, ammunition, and supplies, to act
as governor of all the Moluccas, while he returns to Manila with his
prisoners. Trouble begins immediately, and Esquival is kept busy with
expeditions to the various islands and forts, while the Dutch again
begin their machinations; and sickness fights powerfully against
the Spaniards. At Mindanao, a conspiracy to escape is discovered
among the prisoners, for Mindanao is friendly to the Ternatans. The
narrative continues:]
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