have been in
captivity there. It seems to this witness that it will be a matter of
the greatest importance to attack the said king of Chanpan and crush
him, because he is in the route of the vessels where he does a great
deal of harm, because all the trading-vessels from Malaca, Canboja,
Cian, Patan, China, and other neighboring countries have to pass by
that place. It will be a great service to God our Lord, and to his
Majesty, to remove so great a pirate from the vicinity. Everything
that this witness has said is the truth, and what he has heard said
concerning the things asked him. His information goes no farther. His
age is about thirty-seven years or so.

Signed, _Fernan Caravallo_

Before me:

_Jhoan de Cuellar_

[_Endorsed_: "Inquiry against the king of Chanpa."]

Letter from Governor Don Francisco Tello

1. _This recounts that on all occasions the state of affairs of
these islands has been reported, and was not enlarged upon because no
instruction had been sent nor has been up to the year 1598, on which
account many things pertaining to the service of his Majesty, and of
importance for this country, have failed to receive attention._ [31]

As I have at various times written to your Majesty, you ordered me
to come here and serve in this country, without giving me the royal
instructions of despatches to that end. Accordingly many things of
importance which your Majesty commanded me to attend to were left
undone at the time I came. When I arrived in these islands I wrote
to your Majesty at length of those things which could be managed in
spite of the short time I had spent here. These despatches were lost
in the ship "San Phelipe" which Don Luis Perez Dasmarinas despatched
in the year 1596, and which was lost in Xapon. The next year, 1597,
I awaited the royal instruction of your Majesty in order to govern my
action by it; but neither did that come, until the past year, 1598. I
govern my action according to that of Gomez Perez Dasmarinas, my
predecessor, and with that I have stumbled through various matters. In
the past year, 1597, I wrote at length to your Majesty describing
the condition of the country and that of Japon, together with the
state of the expedition to Mindanao, and all other things which seemed
expedient. I also wrote that I had married Dona Tomasina, my relative,
and the daughter of Doctor Horosco, president of your royal Audiencia
of Guadalaxara--humbly beseeching your Majesty to a