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The Philippine Islands, 1493-1898

CHAPTER X
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The commander and several who were left alive got into their small boat and escaped.

It was said that the ship contained great wealth that had been pillaged along the coast of India, and the best that they had pillaged from the Chinese.

That galleon was called "Sol Nuevo de Olanda" [_i.e._, "New Sun of Holland"], and it set very wretchedly for them that day.

Captain Juan Bautista de Molina was the first to grapple another galleon, and the galley of Don Diego went to his aid.

It had already surrendered, and the Dutch had been made prisoners, when another galleon, all on fire, bore down upon two galleons with which Rodrigo de Guillastegui had fought.


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