[25] The above shows the form in which the accounts from this point are entered. For the sake of greater condensation, we have reduced the balance of the document to the following tabular form. [26] From this and many other entries in these tables, it appears that much of the money reported as paid from the royal treasury never really left it, but that accounts were simply canceled. The benefit of these transactions would accrue to the purchaser of the pay-check, for he bought at a discount from the original holder; and, until the law whereby all the creditors of the royal treasury made a _voluntary gift_ to the king of two-thirds of the account was enforced by Corcuera, he could use the pay-check at its face value, thus making immense profits, or canceling his debts to the royal treasury at small cost to himself. [27] Probably planks one braza long. [28] Spanish, _de guzmanes_; _i.e._, young men from noble families, who served as midshipmen in the navy, or as cadets in the army. [29] That is, what is saved on a short voyage is consumed by extra expense on a long one; and the expenses average about the same, one year with another. [30] That is, the repartimientos or amounts assessed on each district for the royal service, in rice, oil, and other products. [31] Juan del Carpio was born at Rio Frio, Spain, in 1583. While a youth, he met in Spain Alonso Humanes, who was going with missionaries to the Philippines, and offered himself for that work. Humanes took him to Mexico, where Carpio entered (1604) the Jesuit order; completing there his education, he went to the Philippines in 1615. His missionary labors were carried on among the Visayans, during eighteen years. He was murdered by the Moro pirates, December 3, 1634. See account of his life in Murillo Velarde's _Historia_, fol. 70 verso, 71. [32] Juan Domingo Bilancio--thus Murillo Velarde (_Hist. de Philipinas_, fol. 64); but Retana and Pastells (in Combes's _Hist. de Mindanao_, cols. 740, 741) give the name as Juan Bautista Vilancio--was born in the kingdom of Naples, about 1573. Before attaining his majority, he entered the Jesuit order, and came to Manila in 1602, spending the rest of his life in the Philippine missions. He was captured by the Moro pirates in 1632, who demanded a heavy ransom for him. This was raised in the following year, but he died in captivity before the money reached him. His name (apparently Vilanci) is given a Spanish form by all these writers; and he is not mentioned by Sommervogel.