The building of a fort in that port of Yloylo, and the sending there of six pieces of artillery and one engineer to Don Diego, had been discussed in Manila.

But there was the utmost remissness and neglect in sending those pieces, for it was considered certain that if the enemy came he would manage to make himself master of the port.

And although they could have been sent him one month before, they reached him one week after the opportunity was gone--when, if Don Diego had had them, he would have sunk half the enemy's fleet.

Such injury is done by the remissness and neglect of him who governs.
The enemy thought that they would make little from Don Diego, and consequently left that place, and went to anchor in the mouth of the bay of Manila.

They reached an island which is situated in the middle of the entrance, called Marivelez, where a sentinel is always posted to give notice of the ships that come to the city.