ld be a very
acceptable service to God to go to attack him and to clear the sea
of those tyrannies and robberies, and take from them their land and
their harbor, which will be much to his Majesty's purpose for great
designs. The said witness declares that the king has a great deal of
artillery, which he has seen, moreover, with his own eyes. The other
things he has heard said by captives. This is all that he knows, and it
is true, according to the oath which he swore. His age is thirty-seven.

Signed, _Gregorio de Vargas_

Before me:

_Jhoan de Cuellar_

_Testimony_: Then, on this said day, the oath was received, regarding
the aforesaid, in due legal form from Diego Belosso, at present in
this city, who swore in the name of God and by the sign of the cross,
under which charge he promised to tell the truth. Being questioned
regarding the matter, this witness said that he knows it must have
been ten years ago that a junk belonging to Don Jhoan de la Gama was
lost on La Barela, which is an island lying near Chanpan, where there
were many Portuguese Christians and those of other nations, and a
cleric who was going in the said junk from Macan to Malaca. The said
people disembarked, where this same king of Chanpan captured them
all, distributed them as slaves, and otherwise ill-treated them,
even forcing them to carry timber. Captain Roque de Melo sent an
embassy to the said king of Chanpan, asking him to return the people
whom he was holding in captivity for ransom, or in any other way. The
king ransomed some, but refused to ransom others, so that more than
half of them remained there. He also said that those who went to that
country were forced into slavery. This witness knows all of this to
be true, because he was at Malaca at the time. He also heard it said
that the king who was then reigning had ordered the execution of his
own father. Being in Canboja about six years ago, this witness heard
that a junk which was on the way to Canboja from Cian ran aground
at Chanpan in a storm, where, in like manner, all the Portuguese and
others who were aboard were captured and robbed of their merchandise;
but that their junk was resold to them, and the crew ransomed. This
witness also knows that a Portuguese, whom the king of Canboja,
according to his custom, had made a nobleman of his kingdom, was,
while aboard a trading-vessel, struck by a storm so that he put
in at Chanpan, where the king of Chanpan ordered his execution,
be