Large forests were overthrown; great springs opened up; rivers changed their courses; and many other very strange things occurred.
The island of Jolo was at one time subject to the king [of Spain], but some years ago it rebelled; and now its natives, in company with some other enemies of ours, the people of Mindanao, go about with little fleets committing robberies upon these seas and doing all the damage in their power.

This year they set out with only three caracoas, ships something like galleys.

But when they discovered that an armed fleet of caracoas, which had been equipped in the city of Zebu, had set out on the eleventh of November in search of them, and that another fleet had set out from Oton on the same quest, they returned to their own country, having committed almost no damage except that they captured some three Spaniards--of whom, they say, they killed two.
This year there was completed in these islands one of the strongest and most remarkable galleons ever built here.

It was at once equipped, along with another very large galleon, two [smaller] ones, and a patache.

In March, 620, this fleet set out for the port where they are accustomed to go to watch for the Chinese ships that bring merchandise to this city.