use the best of them
were killed, honorably surrendered. Admiral Joan de Alcaga agreed,
and so they were captured with nineteen men alive. On our side only
one man was killed by a gun-shot, one Joan Baptista de Mondragon,
a nephew of the precentor in the cathedral at Manila. Another from
the Canarias was drowned while trying to jump from one ship to the
other. Some were seriously wounded; the captain and master of our
almiranta, Joan Lopez de Serra, was shot through the thigh, and a
certain Calderon was shot through one side of his shoulder and part
of his arm. There were others wounded, but none seriously. Some booty
was found on the vessel, two pipes of oil and two of wine, a number
of basins, candlesticks, and brass mortars, iron in plates and bars,
and some other small wares of little value. They captured twelve pieces
of artillery--eight heavy and excellent pieces of cast iron, and four
small ones. Among other things captured, was found a small iron coffer
which was kept in the after-cabin, and in which the admiral carried the
papers and commissions which the prince of Orange had given him when
he appointed him captain of that ship. One was in his own tongue and
the other in ours, which is the one copied at the end of this relation.

One or two charts were found, which they brought for Piru; these the
holy Inquisition has in its possession. Then Admiral Joan de Alcega
ordered a few sailors to be transferred to the ship surrendered by
the enemy, and set them to making repairs in order to take it into
Manila; for its main mast and rigging were lost, and our men in
boarding left nothing standing by which they could navigate. They
took it to an island near by, called Luban, While there, our men
sighted a dismantled ship which seemed to be coming toward them,
which they took to be the enemy's flagship, which was already ours,
and that it was being sent, like their own, to be repaired. Their
expectation was not unfounded, for they had seen our men in it and
heard them shouting, "Victory!" so that it seemed to them that nothing
else could be possible. But in actual truth it was the enemy, who was
coming, upon seeing his almiranta, to see if he could assist it. But
when the enemy saw the two ships close together, and heard no noise
of guns, he tacked about, and hitherto nothing has been known of his
whereabouts. It is believed that his flagship was badly injured and
battered, since it did not wait, although victorious by h