Now more than one million [pesos] is due to the Indians and there is no hope of recompense.

From that may be inferred how great should be the trustworthiness and Christian spirit of those persons who are to govern the Filipinas, since they have no one to restrain them for the injuries that they commit.

Besides the said wrongs, those that I shall now relate were no less.
When he discussed building those ships, three years before that fleet should be taken out, he ordered all the soldiers of the islands to be collected, and the forts and important posts to be abandoned, especially a fort in the city of Cibu.

He took all the artillery and carried it to Manila, which was the cause of the Mindanaos destroying those islands when they learned that, without any one opposing them.

He also ordered that no one leave the city without his permission, under serve penalties.