They made a compact with the latter that each side should go to destroy the islands, even as far as the city of Manila.

The Mindanaos set out with a fleet that they had prepared, of seventy caracoas, which resemble galliots.

They anchored with them in the province of Camarines, where they had heard that one ship and two pataches were being built for your Majesty.

They killed and captured about thirty Spaniards and many Indians, set fire to the ships, and pillaged whatever they could lay hands on.

That disaster, which was very great, was the result of neglecting to send there fifty picked soldiers to guard the shipyard.