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The Philippine Islands, 1493-1898

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I have related this event because of the many fictions that were told here about Captain Gallinato, who, although a good soldier, did nothing else in the kingdom of Camboxa.

Of it Fray Diego Duarte, a Dominican, now residing at Alcala de Henares, procurator of his order in the Filipinas Islands, who was one of those who were present at the death of the king of Camboxa--and not the least important one there--and Captain Don Miguel de Xaque de los Rios, now at this court, are witnesses." The arrival at Manila of "Dona Isabel Varreto," wife of "Alvaro de Amendana," is chronicled.

The discovery that they attempted to make from Peru can be made better from the Philippines, and at less cost, because of its proximity to those regions.
Chapter V treats of events during the term of Francisco Tello, the main part of the chapter being devoted to Louis Perez Dasmarinas's ill-fated expedition to Camboja.

Tello "began to govern with forbearance, although one thing that he did before reaching the city seems to have presaged the evils of the future." This was in his detention of the ship bound for Nueva Espana, until he could reach Manila and make a report to the king.

As a consequence the vessel, sailing late, experienced so great storms that it was compelled to put in at a Japanese port, "and King Taycosama took their goods away from them, and it was the cause of the martyrdom of twenty-six Franciscan religious, and of the ruin of Manila ...


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