noble rivalry—­minutely concerning the expeditions of General Furtado.  Since the latter had referred to them in his letters, they gave an extended relation of them, and executed his embassy, each one fulfilling the office that he professed.  Don Pedro did not delay the sending [of reenforcements.] He assembled the council of war, where it was resolved to send Furtado the help that he requested, without delay, although they felt obliged to accommodate themselves to the necessities of the country.  Following this decision the governor sent a message to the provinces of Pintados ordering captain Juan Xuarez Gallinato, chief of them, to provide all necessaries for the expedition, and himself to sail with his best disciplined infantry from Cebu to the city of Arevalo, the place assigned for assembling the fleet.  Gallinato did this, and also sent a vessel to Oton to lade as much as possible of the supplies.  It reached Oton October twenty-eight, and the same day Don Pedro left Manila for Pintados, in order, by his presence, to inspire greater haste in the despatch of the fleet, which was already almost ready in Oton.  He arrived there November thirteen.  So fiery was his spirit that he assembled the reenforcement and entrusted it to Juan Xuarez Gallinato—­without allowing the expeditions from Xolo and Mindanao to embarrass him, even though he saw the natives of those islands, divided into different bodies among the Pintados, pillaging and murdering his Majesty’s vassals—­and appointed him general and commander of that expedition.

[Furtado, after asking the reenforcement from Acuna, goes to the Moluccas.  Some of his men are defeated in a naval engagement with the natives, whereupon Furtado builds a fort at the friendly island of Machian.]

After the fleet, military stores and food had been collected, they were delivered to Gallinato by the auditors and fiscal of the Audiencia.  The supplies consisted of one thousand fanegas of cleaned rice, three hundred head of cattle, two hundred jars of wine, eighty quintals of nails and bolts, forty quintals of powder, three hundred Ylocos blankets, seven hundred varas of Castilian wool, one hundred sail-needles, and thirty jugs of oil.  The men amounted to two hundred soldiers—­one hundred and sixty-five arquebusiers and thirty-five musketeers—­twenty-two sailors, several pilots, one master, three artillerymen in the “Santa Potenciana,” and twenty common seamen.  The monthly expense of all that equipment amounted to twenty-two thousand two hundred and sixty pesos.  This having been done on the part of the governor and Audiencia, they required Father Andres Pereyra and Captain Brito to go with the reenforcement—­which Gallinato had ready, with its colors, and with Captains Christoval Villagra and Juan Fernandez de Torres.  The company of Captain Don Tomas Bravo, the governor’s nephew, son of Don Garcia his brother, was left behind; but the captain went, and served bravely on the expedition.