ary to
maintain it, in order to avert the injuries which on the other hand
would be received by the islands of the Pintados. It would usually
be necessary to bring an army for their defense, if the Spaniards
should abandon the island of Mindanao, and the chiefs rebel.

[_Endorsed:_ "Relation of the condition of the island of Mindanao,
cited in section ix of the letter of July 12, 1599, concerning
the war."]

The State of the Kingdom of Camboxa in Relation to these Phelippinas
Islands

The past year, one thousand five hundred and ninety-six, Don Luis
de las Marinas, governor of these islands, sent Captain Joan Xuarez
Gallinato with an armed fleet to the assistance of the king of
Canboja, who had asked him to defend him from the king of Sian, who
had threatened him; and the former offered to introduce Christianity
into his kingdom and make friends with the Spaniards. When aid
arrived at Canboxa, it appeared that the king had retired with his
children to the kingdom of Laos, for fear of the king of Sian, who
had occupied his kingdom; and that Anacaparan, military commander
of Camboxa, had assembled the greater part of the people of Camboxa,
who had remained. Having met the Sianese and recovered the kingdom,
he was powerful enough to claim it and become tyrant. Some of the
Spaniards who arrived at Canboja beforehand without their commander,
on account of a storm which separated them on the way, although they
were received with simulated friendship by Anacaparan, heard later
that he was plotting to kill them. Provoked by this and other injuries
which a number of Chinese, who had gone to the cities of Hordemuz and
Sistor (the chief cities of that kingdom) in five trading-vessels,
had inflicted upon them, and for which the tyrant refused to give
them any satisfaction and justice, the Spaniards, who numbered about
forty soldiers, attacked the Chinese and Anacaparan and his men, a
numerous force, in his palace. They made so great havoc among them,
that they killed the tyrant king and many of his men, completely
crushing them. They took the Chinese ships, and without harm or
injury retired to their own ships, defending themselves from a much
greater number of warlike enemies and elephants who charged them. At
this juncture the rest of the Spaniards arrived at Camboxa with
their commander. Considering what had just taken place, and that
the land was in rebellion and the legitimate king in the country of
the Laos, he tho