and anchored near our fleet.  From there they sent the said Moros, our messengers, in a baroto. [31] All of the above was interpreted by Simaguat, Moro interpreter of the said language.  The said captain having seen this, and because he had no one who could read the letter, gave a verbal response to the said Moros, through Simagat, ordering them to tell the king that he had no one who knew how to read and write the said Bornean language, and for this reason he did not write to him.  He said that the wish of the said governor, and his own through the former’s order, was that the king should become our ally, and recognize as seignior the king of Castilla, our sovereign; and that he should come to treat with the said captain, or send one of his chiefs, so that the latter might discuss the matter, since this was so desirable for his tranquillity and his honor.  Thereupon he ordered the messengers to be despatched.  The witnesses present were Luis Briseno, Alonso Locano, Bartolome de Tapia, and many other persons.

Don Juan Arce

I attest the above: 

Manuel de Caceres, notary

Thereupon on this said day, month, and year abovementioned, a Moro whom the said captain said he knew last year as a slave of the panguilan Salalila, appeared then before the said captain Don Juan de Arce.  The said Moro said that he was the abovementioned person, and that he had come into the possession of the king through the death of his master.  The king treated him badly; and, as soon as he knew that the Spaniards were in this port, he came to them.  Then the said captain, through the said Simagat, ordered the said Moro to be questioned about the death of the said Salalila, his master; the whereabouts of the panguilan Maraja de Raxa; whether the king, Soltan Lijar, was in Borney; where he had hidden when the very illustrious Doctor Francisco de Sande, the governor, was here last year; whether the said king was fortified; what artillery and provisions he had; and what he was now doing.  This witness replied that his name was Sisian, and that he was a native of Sian.  He came to this kingdom of Borney with his mother, and had always been the slave of the panguilan Maraxa de Raxa, and served the said Salalila likewise when occasion offered.  After the said governor went to Manila, this Indian served the said Salalila the entire time.  He saw that, some days after the said Maraxa de Raxa had despatched advice that the Spaniards had gone, King Soltan Lijar came to his settlement of Borney with about fifty vessels, large and small—­among them being a galley of Manrijar in which was the body of the old king, his father, who had died at Baran, a few days before, from a disease.  They buried him with solemnity in the river of Borney.  With the said Soltan Lijar came the vandaran, who serves as steward and treasurer, and the tumangan, or chief justice, the panguilan Salam, and others.  As soon as he entered the river, the other persons