Sanchez "wrote some treatises about the justification of the kings of Espana, and their right of title to the Filipinas, which merit that time do not bury them, although they exist in the archives of the Council of the Indias.

He seems a prophet in many of his statements in those treatises." [35] In Chapter II some of the leading events of the term of Gomez Perez Dasmarinas are noted, and his unfortunate death.

Such is his activity and care "that he alone aggrandized that city more than had all his predecessors, or his successors to this time." Negotiations are opened with Japan, and the embassy from Camboja begging for aid against Siam is received at Manila.

"I believe," says Los Rios, "that if he had done it, it would have been a great stroke of fortune, and your Majesty would justly be lord of that kingdom and of Sian, which is very wealthy.

That is the only thing in which I believe that Gomez Perez erred." The succession of Luis Perez Dasmarinas to the government of the Philippines, and the designs of the Chinese to capture the islands, form the subject matter of Chapter III.