When the prisoners reached Firando they formed a plot and escaped to land in that kingdom, where all the world is allowed.
The quantity of munitions and provisions which the Hollanders secure every year from Japon for supplying all their fortifications is very great, and therefore if they were not harbored there, it would be a great injury to them and of much benefit to these islands.
Of the Islands of Maluco With the lure of the cloves and drugs which are found in these Malucas Islands, more and more ships from foreign nations are continually coming to them; The French have built a factory in Macasar and have at present four ships there.

Between the English and the Hollanders there is constant strife.

In Jaba and Sumatra the English have twenty galleons; the Dutch general set out for that place with sixteen galleons which he had collected, but it is not known how the affair has ended, although it is known that there has been war between the two nations.
This year Don Luis de Bracamonte was sent from this city of Manila as governor of the military posts in Maluco.

He took with him two galleys and four or five pataches, loaded with a great quantity of supplies and more than two hundred infantry.

When the galleys and the pataches had entered our fortress of Terrenate, one of them, called the "Sant Buena Ventura," remained behind as rearguard.