and panguilans who were fugitives outside the city began to return.  The king began to collect all his artillery, and has collected by this time about two hundred pieces.  He summoned all his Bisayan and Moro allies in order to build a fort, which he has built up the river, from palm-trees four brazas high.  He placed there all his artillery, wives, food, and provisions, as soon as he heard of our coming.  Only the men stayed on the river, keeping close watch.  As to the death of his master, as soon as the king had come, he asked Salalila why he had married his daughter to Don Agustin, chief of Tondo in the city of Manila, who had come to this said river with the said governor.  He said that Salalila replied that he had done it for fear, and to please the Spaniards.  Thereupon the king dissimulated until, after a month, there came a large galleon and a galley of Portuguese, who negotiated by letters and in person with the king, and went up to the city and traded about a hundred slaves, wax, and other goods.  At the end of ten days the Portuguese left for Maluco; and three days after Salalila was dead, from a sickness that lasted less than half a day.  It was a sudden looseness of the bowels, which proved so severe that, on getting up to ease himself, he fell dead.  It was rumored among the people that the king had ordered him to be poisoned; but so great was the fear of the said king that no one dared to discuss it.  It is now five months since the said Maraxa de Raxa left the city of Borney with two caracoas.  This witness has heard it said that the king sent him to Tolobaran, and to all the other rivers as far as Saragua, in order to look for a good location in which to settle with all his people in a strong and well-provisioned place; and he has not returned.  He knows nothing more of this.  After the death of the said Salalila, the king took all his property and slaves, among the latter this witness.  Because he was very tired and worn out in making the fort which he has mentioned, and in cutting wood for another fort, which the king intended to build on the site where the said governor had settled near the mosque, this witness resolved to flee to the Spaniards, in order to go to the city of Manila to the daughter of the panguilan Salalila, his master.  When asked how many Portuguese vessels came, and if this witness saw them, and if he went to them, he answered that he had gone to them many times with his master; that they were in a ship of deep draught and a large Castilian galley; that the galley was much larger than this flagship; that it carried ninety men and three large pieces at the bow, and falcons at the stern.  The large ship carried one hundred Portuguese, eight large pieces, and many culverins.  The crew of the galley, or rowers, were chained, and the galley was in poor condition from storms that it had suffered.  In this port a mast and other equipment were made.  And in regard to what he knows touching the hiding-place of the king during his Lordship’s stay in this river, he says that it was well-known that he was in a river of Bisayas in the province of Malanao, near to Saragua.  This is all that he can tell and no more.  This his deposition being read, he declared it true.  By his appearance his age must be about forty years.  The said captain signed the above in the presence of many witnesses.