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Of the coming of the Dutch to Manila in search of Don.
Juan de Silva.
It was learned in Maluco from the Dutch commander who passed through the Strait of Magallanes and infested the coasts of Piru and Nueva Espana--the same one who arrived at Manila just after the departure of Don Juan de Silva--that Don Juan had laid his course toward Malaca and thence to Maluco.

Immediately all their ships were collected, and, repairing many, they equipped the ten best ones, taking the best artillery and men from their forts for that purpose, with the determination of awaiting Silva.

But when they saw that he delayed so long, and that he could not come to Maluco now, because of bad weather, thinking that he would have returned, they went to try issues with him at Manila.

On reaching the island of Mindanao, they learned of his death from the Indians.