rtillery--a council of war was held as to what was best to
do. The said council decided to withdraw the garrison from La Caldera
to Zibu, so that the enemy should not take that place; and, if they
should attempt to do damage to that province, they would find it in a
state of defense. Accordingly an order was sent to Captain Toribio de
Miranda to withdraw with the troops, arms, artillery, and munitions,
dismantling the fort; he was also told that he could return shortly
to the island with more troops and arms, in order to assist in its
defense. On the ninth of September Captain Toribio de Miranda arrived
at Zibu, with all the troops, artillery, arms, and munitions; and at
the same time General Don Juan Tello arrived at Zibu with a hundred
men, who came as reenforcement from the city of Manila. Having spent
six months there and commenced to build a fort of stone, the governor,
as they had no more news of the English referred to, sent an order to
the said Don Juan to come to the city of Manila--which he did with the
hundred men, leaving the province of Zibu in a prosperous condition,
with the troops which are usually kept there, and those of the garrison
of La Caldera, which in all amount to two hundred and fifty Spaniards.

After all this, in June of 1600 the governor received news, by way
of Malaca, that the ships which had passed to the South Sea belonged
to Dutch merchants, who had come to load with spices in the Maluco
Islands. Having transacted their business, they had returned to their
own country by way of Yndia, without doing any damage to the islands
of the west; it therefore seems that we are safe, notwithstanding
the news received of those enemies.

Oliver van Noordt's Attack on Luzon

_Commission to Antonio de Morga_

In the city of Manila, on the thirty-first of October of the year
one thousand six hundred, the president and auditors of the royal
Audiencia and Chancilleria of the Philipinas Islands having assembled,
the president announced to the said auditors that news had been
received that, on the sixteenth of the current month and year, two
foreign ships had anchored in the bay of Albay, outside the mouth
of the channel of these islands; whereupon he sent by land Captains
Pedro de Arceo, Cobarrubias, and Christoval de Axqueta with seventy
soldiers--arquebusiers and musketeers--to the place where said ships
were stationed, in order to make the defense and resistance that
occasion and opport