They are sure that he is bringing many more packets in the names of Commander Aztina and Captain Oriosola, the source of these being the fines--which, they say, he regulated more by the wealth than by the faults of the citizens of Manila, levying the fines in merchandise at low prices, by a third hand, that of the said commander. It is currently reported that the bales which he is bringing on his own account, under the names of other persons, exceed one hundred and fifty in number. It is certain that in the custom-house were opened two lots of goods [shipped] in the name of the said commander--one of forty bales of various commodities, and another of thirty bales of Canton silk stuffs, both without invoices; also packets, which show little care and arrangement. This almost entirely confirms the suspicions entertained, all the more as it is well known that the said commander has no wealth, and even hardly enough to eat. But as the merchants of China are here--who have come, like many of the citizens of Mejico, frightened by the extortions imposed in Manila--it is difficult to declare the [contents of the] said packets while the examiner remains in these kingdoms. BIBLIOGRAPHICAL DATA The sources of the documents in the present volume are thus indicated: 1. Dampier in the Philippines.--This document is here concluded from Vol. XXXVIII, q.v. 2. Petition for missionaries.--A printed pamphlet in the British Museum, found in a volume of MSS. and pamphlets, of which this constitutes fol. 710-711; pressmark, "13,992; Plut. CXCI.D." 3. Events in Filipinas.--From Ventura del Arco MSS. (Ayer library), iii, pp. 625-638, 727-732. 4. The Pardo controversy.--The matter in this document is obtained from Retana's Archivo, i, no. iv; Ventura del Arco MSS., iii, pp. 29-56, 523-571, 621-624, 695-726; and Salazar's Hist. Sant. Rosario, pp. 490-513. 5. Visitation by Valdivia.--From Ventura del Arco MSS., iii, pp. 589-596, 641-673. NOTES [1] The Mindanayans are the Mindanaos or Maguindanaos, the Hilanoones are the Ilanos; the Sologues cannot well be identified. "Alfoores" is a corruption of the Portuguese "Alforas," which is derived from the Arabic "al" and the preposition "fora" without. The term was applied by the Portuguese to all natives beyond their authority, and hence to the wild tribes of the interior. See Crawfurd's Dictionary, p. 10. [2] Apparently referring, if one may trust to Dampier's points of compass, to the region about Dapitan, as the Indians of that quarter were among the first subdued by the Spaniards in Mindanao. [3] The Tagalog word for "banana" is "saguing," which is thus almost identical with the Mindanaon term as reported phonetically by Dampier.