The Philippine Islands, 1493-1898, Volume 36, 1649-1666: 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 36, 1649-1666: 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
In accordance with this his Lordship on the twenty-eighth summoned
the ship-captains, and after he had conferred with them they went
back to the father and told him that it was not necessary that he
should fatigue himself by going to the [Sangley] camp, since all
the fugitives had already agreed to come down. They only asked that
the ships might go to Nabotas, from which place all the Sangleys who
had to embark for China would sail; and that the father would, for
this purpose, go there in company with the regimental master-of-camp,
Domingo de Ugarte, who was very acceptable to them and well known for
his kindness to them. On the thirtieth they came down with this reply;
and on the thirty-first the father went back with it to confer with his
Lordship. The latter was ill pleased with the stipulation of embarking
at Navotas on account of the lack of confidence that they displayed;
but the father set out to bring them over to whatever his Lordship
should ordain, as he finally decided it--departing on the first
of June accompanied by Master-of-camp Domingo de Ugarte and three
ship-captains. They arrived that night at the village of Taytay, the
nearest village to the place that the Sangleys had occupied; and that
very night they despatched the ship-captains fully instructed. On the
next day, June 2, the captains came down with the reply and decision
of all the Sangleys--that they would come down to the Parián from
which they would embark in the champans which were ready to depart;
while the Christians would come down to the villages of Santa Cruz
and Binondo, or as his Lordship should command. This they carried
out in the time which they asked, which was two days.
Their resolution was much aided by the one which his Lordship had
taken ever since May 26, when he ordered that one of the champans
should be made ready for the voyage, promising its captain beforehand a
thousand Sangleys, whom he must without fail transport. He commanded
one of the three champans that were at Cavite to come to Manila;
this was to open the door wide in the face of their mistrust, and it
showed that his intention was only to make the country safe and not
to avenge on them (as they had believed) the insolence of Cot-sen.
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