Misfortune follows them, and the flagship is lost on the Chinese coast.

Such is the hatred of the Portuguese at Macao to the Spaniards "that as soon as they heard of our disaster, they issued an edict that no one should aid us under penalty of confiscation of his property, and three years in the galleys." Los Rios with eight men lands in order to seek a pilot, and after various adventures is granted audience by the Chinese, who offer asylum to the Spaniards and rebuke the Portuguese.

Continuing, a short description is given of Macao, which has about five hundred Portuguese inhabitants; its duties and other gains, however, belong to the Chinese monarch.

The principal occupation of the inhabitants is the raw-silk trade with Japan.

For the benefit of trade and religion, Los Rios thinks it advisable to depopulate Macao and suppress it.