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The Philippine Islands, 1493-1898, Volume 35, 1640-1649: 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

History

The Philippine Islands, 1493-1898, Volume 35, 1640-1649: 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

Such was the condition of the islands at the end of June in 44, when
Señor Don Diego Faxardo, knight of the Order of Santiago and member of
his Majesty's Council of War, who had been sent as their proprietary
governor landed on the extreme point of this island of Manila after
a difficult and long voyage, due either to the early beginning of
the vendavals, or to having sailed late from Acapulco. He found the
islands deficient in naval strength, since the few ships there were
had been sent to Terrenate to oppose the threatened invasion of
the enemy that year. About the middle of August his Lordship made
his entrance into Manila and took possession of the government;
and early in September he despatched the galleons "Encarnacion" and
"Rosario,"--which were waiting equipped and ready to sail--to Nueva
España. At the end of October, reënforcements were sent to Terrenate
and other provinces. As early as April, 45, the Dutch enemy had three
small round vessels and as many others (or rather champans) off the
coasts of Ilocos and Pangasinan for the aforesaid purpose. At that
time there was neither a ship nor a galley in Cavite which could be
armed to oppose the enemy, and therefore only champans and oared
vessels were sent out, under command of Captain Sebastian Lopez
(a man whose valor, spirit, and ability will be hereafter related;
he had come with the governor as captain of infantry), and of other
captains and leaders--all picked officers of this camp, and men so
courageous that, although their fleet was so inferior to that of
the enemy, they were enabled to frustrate the designs of the Dutch
and save the Chinese merchantmen. On two different occasions they
engaged the champans of the enemy, three to three, with such valor
and good fortune that both times the enemy was ignominiously routed
with great loss of men; one of their champans being burnt and the
others destroyed, while our losses were but few. This was a happy
beginning and augury of the victories and brilliant successes of our
arms on the sea, although an expensive and dangerous expedition, as
it obliged the enemy, on the following year, to bring all his forces
against the islands, as will be hereafter related, at the proper time,
when an account is given of the melancholy and disastrous calamities
with which it pleased our Lord to visit us on land.



3. Death of the archbishop

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History

The Philippine Islands, 1493-1898, Volume 35, 1640-1649: 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

Such was the condition of the islands at the end of June in 44, when
Señor Don Diego Faxardo, knight of the Order of Santiago and member of
his Majesty's Council of War, who had been sent as their proprietary
governor landed on the extreme point of this island of Manila after
a difficult and long voyage, due either to the early beginning of
the vendavals, or to having sailed late from Acapulco. He found the
islands deficient in naval strength, since the few ships there were
had been sent to Terrenate to oppose the threatened invasion of
the enemy that year. About the middle of August his Lordship made
his entrance into Manila and took possession of the government;
and early in September he despatched the galleons "Encarnacion" and
"Rosario,"--which were waiting equipped and ready to sail--to Nueva
España. At the end of October, reënforcements were sent to Terrenate
and other provinces. As early as April, 45, the Dutch enemy had three
small round vessels and as many others (or rather champans) off the
coasts of Ilocos and Pangasinan for the aforesaid purpose. At that
time there was neither a ship nor a galley in Cavite which could be
armed to oppose the enemy, and therefore only champans and oared
vessels were sent out, under command of Captain Sebastian Lopez
(a man whose valor, spirit, and ability will be hereafter related;
he had come with the governor as captain of infantry), and of other
captains and leaders--all picked officers of this camp, and men so
courageous that, although their fleet was so inferior to that of
the enemy, they were enabled to frustrate the designs of the Dutch
and save the Chinese merchantmen. On two different occasions they
engaged the champans of the enemy, three to three, with such valor
and good fortune that both times the enemy was ignominiously routed
with great loss of men; one of their champans being burnt and the
others destroyed, while our losses were but few. This was a happy
beginning and augury of the victories and brilliant successes of our
arms on the sea, although an expensive and dangerous expedition, as
it obliged the enemy, on the following year, to bring all his forces
against the islands, as will be hereafter related, at the proper time,
when an account is given of the melancholy and disastrous calamities
with which it pleased our Lord to visit us on land.



3. Death of the archbishop

Public-domain text, read in full here on John Shaqi.

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