The father custodian asked as companions, for a guard during the journey, Sergeant Francisco de Duenas and the soldier Juan Diaz Pardo (their friend, as above said), intending to go from there to China, as was done, and as will be told in the following.

The governor, wishing to please him, granted this request, and the father custodian set out in haste, taking with him the above-named soldiers and one religious as associate, by name Fray Augustin de Tordesillas [31]--he who afterward related from memory what had happened to them in China, whence has been taken this little relation.
They arrived at Illocos, where father Fray Juan Baptista [32] and father Fray Sebastian de San Fracisco, of their own order, were busied in instructing the natives.

This was on the fourth of June.

The next day they held a council, at which it was unanimously resolved that all there should venture themselves to go to China to convert those pagans, or else die in the attempt.

Therefore it was decided to approach another soldier likewise of their company, named Pedro de Villaroel.