instance, Tumango, the said king’s brother, Bandahala, the said king’s nephew, and each man in his own vessel.  Being asked what was done to eight [sic] Indians who accompanied the said Indians entrusted with the said letters, this witness said that he did not know, for he was always in the fleet, fighting with the Spaniards.  Afterward, inasmuch as the said Magat, who was imprisoned, was his relative, he went to the said prison to free him, and gave his jailer, by name Patimuhaurat, a large culverin weighing fifteen arrobas, and pledged himself to give him four slaves and two taes of gold.  Thereupon the said jailer released the said Magat, and this witness accompanied him to a Spanish vessel.  The said jailer and the other Bornean Moros fled.  Afterward the said jailer returned to Borney, where this witness saw him deliver the said culverin to the flagship of his Majesty, by order of his Lordship.  After a certain period this witness saw that the said governor with his fleet went to Manila, whereupon, in fear lest the said Moros should kill him, he came to this city.  This is what he knows, and his deposition, and contains true answers to what he has been asked.  He knows naught else, and has affirmed and ratified the above.  He appears to be some fifty or so years old.  He did not sign his name.

Juan Vicente

Before me: 

Alonso Beltran, his Majesty’s notary

[Likewise the deposition of one Amiguicon, a native of Luzon, was taken.  Its essential parts are as follows:]

Being asked how long he had lived in Borney and what he was doing there, he said, as above, that he is a native of this island of Lucon and that about fourteen years ago he went to trade in Borney with property and merchandise.  The king of Borney would not let him come to this city, and refused him permission therefor.  Thus he made cloth for him and served him in war and did whatever offered until his Lordship came to Borney.

Asked what he was doing in Borney when the said governor went there, this witness said that, when the said governor arrived at the bay of Borney, he went out by command of the king of Borney in a galley with artillery, to fight with his Lordship’s vessels.  Other galleys and many soldiers went also.  In the galley in charge of this witness were fifty-four fighting men, and more than thirty rowers.  There were six pieces of artillery, two large ones at the bow and four culverins at the sides.  In the vessel commanded by the son of the old king who reigns in Borney, by name Soltan Lijar, were twenty pieces, three large ones in the bow, and the others at the sides.  All the said galleys and other vessels were about fifty in number, and all went out to fight with the fleet of the said governor.  These fifty-four vessels consisted of galleys and large ships, besides many other small boats that sailed—­sail-boats, bancas, and barangayes [27]—­all of which fleet was seen by this witness as he set out for the port where the battle was fought.  The said king of Borney remained in his galley at the mouth of the river, anchored at an islet called Polocharami.  After the Borneans were conquered, they all fled, as did this witness.  After two or three days, this witness and other Bornean Moros came to the said governor, and begged him to pardon them; accordingly the said governor granted them pardon.