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Then, at the command and order of the governor, all the Chinese slaves whom Limahon had in his possession and who were captured in the fort of Pangasinan as aforesaid, were collected.
These the governor gave to Omoncon, allowing him to take them freely.
Likewise the governor ordered that the master-of-camp, and the soldiers and captains who were engaged at the siege, should deliver all those who remained there, binding himself to pay to the soldiers to whom such belonged, the appraised value of the captives.
This done, he ordered everything necessary for the voyage to be fully prepared, which was done within a very few days. Omoncon sets out with news of the pirate Limahon's extremity, taking with him to China the Augustinian fathers.
Chapter X. On Sunday morning, June twelfth, in the year of our Lord one thousand five hundred and seventy-five, the aforesaid governor and all the citizens assembled to go in a body to the monastery of St.Augustine.Here a most solemn mass of the Holy Spirit was said.
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