The news was that the flagship--a large galleon, and, as its actions showed, not a very good sailer--happened to encounter, without its consort (which was a bark), the three Dutch ships.

These approached the galleon, and ordered it to strike its sails for Mauricio.

Captain and Sargento-mayor Don Fernando de Ayala, warder of the port at the point of Cavite (whom I had sent out in order that he might return as commander of the said ships because the person who went as commander from here was to remain in Nueva Espana--namely, Don Luys Fernandez de Cordova, a relative of the viceroy of that province) answered them, as a valiant cavalier and soldier, with his artillery and firearms.

He continued fighting and defending himself all that day and part of the night, until under cover of its darkness and a heavy fog that settled down, pursuing their voyage, the Spaniards left the enemy with the intention of running upon the coast of an island of the strait, called Ybabao.

Our Lord guided them to a port, where a ship was never known to have entered.