from what they must be congratulating themselves that they will find.  It is decidedly important to have a large contingent of troops sent from Mexico.  This is the most pressing need, and the viceroy of Nueva Espana should be urgently ordered to attend to it.  For if the Japanese come, they may be able, in case help does not arrive, to gain the land after a long siege and with a large force, and thus put us to great straits.  But to whatever extremities we come, we here will not, at least, be found to lack the necessary energy and determination, and we will give your Majesty a good account of your land and our obligations.  We trust matters to the omnipotent hand of our God and Lord.  May He ordain what is most befitting His service and the glory of His sacred name.  May He preserve your Majesty for many long years, as Christendom has need.  Manila, June 23, 1594.

Luis Perez Dasmarinas

[Addressed:  “To the king, our sovereign.  In his royal Council of the Yndias.”]

[Endorsed:  “Philippinas.  To his Majesty.  Luis Perez Dasmarinas, 1594, June 23.”]

Documents of 1595

    Letter to Felipe II.  Pedro Gonzalez de Carbajal; [1595?]
    Formation of new dioceses.  Felipe II; June 17. 
    Letter to Felipe II.  Antonio de Morga; June 25. 
    Expedition to Camboja.  Gregorio da Cruz, and others; August 1—­3. 
    Instructions to Figueroa.  L. P. Dasmarinas; November 13—­16. 
    The Audiencia of Manila reestablished.  Felipe II; November 26. 
    Letter to Felipe II.  L.P.  Dasmarinas; December 6.

Sources:  The second document is taken from Doc. ined.  Amer. y Oceania, xxxiv, pp. 86—­94; all the others are obtained from MSS. in the Archivo general de Indias, Sevilla.

Translations:  The first document is translated by Arthur B. Myrick, of Harvard University; the second, by Frederic W. Morrison, of Harvard University; the third and part of the seventh, by Jose M. and Clara H. Asensio; the fourth and fifth, by Robert W. Haight; the sixth and part of the seventh, by James A. Robertson.

Letter from Pedro de Carbajal to Felipe II

Sire: 

It is well known that the emperor of Japon is powerful in men and arms, and that his people are of great courage.  He was making ready two hundred ships, and casting quantities of artillery.  Japon is distant from the realm of the Philipinas four hundred leagues, which is a voyage of fifteen or twenty days by sea.  On his friendship depends the preservation of the Philipinas, and of two hundred thousand Christians in that same kingdom of Japon, as well as of the rest of its people, who are being christianized from day to day.  We have great hopes that all of them will become Christians, because it is known surely that many of the principal people of Japon would become