the city, some of the merchants with shoes and others with clothes.  The barber was to attend to his duties.  Then with four Sangleys in each house, they were to put all the Spaniards to the sword, reserving the Spanish women.  These they had already distributed, the young girls for their enjoyment and the old women to serve in the house.  For this purpose each of them was to carry a catan, or sort of cutlass, under their long robes.  Besides this they had ordered a body of five hundred to assemble, who were to assault the monastery of St. Francis, and leave no one alive there.  Doubtless they would have killed all according to this plan, if God our Lord had not been pleased, in His divine mercy, to disclose it, the day before.  Although there had been some rumors of the insurrection nine days before, the Spaniards would never believe it; for the life of the Spaniard is all confidence, and he thinks no one can dare to do such things.  The cause of the enemy dividing into so many troops was the factions among them, so that out of the more than 22,00[0] Sangleys in all these islands, not 800 have survived. [22] On the twenty-fourth of October they began to dig the trench about the city wall, at which three hundred men, all Sangleys, worked.  The one thousand Moros were engaged in other works, not only on the fort and in the new retreat, but on the wall and the supplies for it.  The ditch is seventy feet wide and two estados deep.  As soon as the war began, three hundred Sangley Christians who lived in Tondo and Minondo embarked in some small boats with their wives and children, and went down the river to the governor, to whom they said that they had no wish to revolt.  These were sent away safely, and returned to their houses.  The Spaniards are living with great caution toward them, for they are treacherous and cunning in what they do.  They exercise their trades in this city.  Each of them is considered as well employed, in exchange for which they must not commit offenses as in the past, which were great and numerous.  On the fourteenth of November, Sargento-mayor Ascoeta entered this city, marching in good order with his camp, both Spaniards, and the Pampanga Indians and Japanese.  They brought in the banners won from the enemy.  They were very well received by the governor and Audiencia, and by all the city.  Don Pedro showered a thousand compliments on all the Pampanga captains for their good services.  They were much pleased at this, and offered their persons, lives, and possessions to the service of his Majesty.  The Japanese and Pampangas had a share in all the wealth of the booty, and it was large, for it consisted mainly of gold, silver, reals, and pearls.

I do not mention the stratagems of war, the instructions, and the orders throughout the course of it, in order not to prove wearisome, and, moreover, to leave them for one who can write them in a better style.  Only, as an eye-witness, I affirm what I have here told, and that all in general have behaved themselves very well as honorable soldiers (especially the leaders), both of the ecclesiastics and of the laymen; and that in this, as in other matters, our Lord has shown us a thousand favors.