_Note by the transcriber_: "The court of Rome was greatly offended at the just and proper procedure of the definitorio of the Order, giving them to understand that they should have concealed the crime and the criminals; but that, besides being against all morality and the necessity of making a public example of offenders, would have been impossible in this case, so notorious in Manila from the hour when the crime and the delinquents were discovered." [20] Cf. the brief account of this tragic occurrence given by the Augustinian chronicler Juan de Medina, in his _Historia_ (1630), which will be presented in a later volume of this series. [21] A fleet of five caravels arrived at Manila in 1612, which had come from Cadiz via the Cape of Good Hope; they were commanded by Ruy Gonzalez Sequeira, and brought reenforcements of nearly six hundred men. [22] This was Alonso Fajardo y Tenza; for sketch of his career as governor, see appendix at end of _Vol_. XVII. [23] These italic sidebeads represent marginal notes in the MS. from which this document is translated. [24] So in the transcription, but apparently a copyist's error of _sesenta_ ("sixty") for _setenta_ ("seventy "). See _Vol_. III, p. 153. [25] Evidently referring to the statement above (under the heading "Camarines") as to the use of gold by the Indians for their ornaments. [26] Achen is at the northwest extremity of Sumatra, and Jambi is a state in the northeast part of the same island. Sumatra is the principal source of the black pepper of commerce. See articles "Sumatra," "Jambi," and "Pepper," in Crawfurd's _Dictionary of Indian Islands_. Negapatan is on the eastern coast of Hindustan, not far from Cape Comorin. [27] Better known by its modern name of Johor; it is the Malay state at the southern end of the Malayan peninsula, and the British territory of Malacca and the Malay state of Pahang lie north of it. The town of Johor was founded in 1511, by the Malays who were then expelled from Malacca by the Portuguese. Johor was not an island, but part of the mainland: the text probably refers to one of the islands off its coast on which a Dutch post may have been located; some of these islands are still possessed by the Dutch. [28] Apparently a corruption of the name Masulipatam, a city on the Coromandel coast of India--not, as Heredia calls it, an island. [29] This last paragraph decides the authorship of this document, plainly indicating that of Pedro de Heredia, who filled the post he mentions in the last sentence, and captured the Dutch commander van Caerden. [30] Evidently a reference to the hospital at Los Banos (see _Vol_. XIV, p. 211). [31] _Achotes [hachotes] para los faroles_: A large wax candle, with more than one wick, or a union of three or four candles, which was used for the lanterns.