in person, and with his blows broke a cane on the men; with this,
he gained among the soldiers the surname of "the good sergeant." He
issued numberless proclamations, which no one now observes, because
the man's disposition has been recognized. He was very solicitous about
the night patrols, not only within but without Manila--obliging those
within the walls to go about at night with torches; and ordaining to
the people outside that after eight o'clock no one should go out of
his house, under penalty of two years in the galleys and two hundred
lashes. A Dominican religious who did not know of these new orders,
going to hear a confession in his ministry outside the walls of
Manila, encountered the patrol within his own village--at which he
was surprised, as it was not customary for the patrols to enter the
villages outside the walls, on account of the knavish acts which the
soldiers are wont to commit under pretext of making the rounds. For
this reason the said religious ordered them to depart from the said his
ministry, and to patrol in their accustomed beat; but, although they
did not obey him, they informed the governor next day of the opposition
which the religious had made to the patrol. At this the new governor,
being angry without good reason, gave orders that if any minister tried
to forbid the patrol, they should notify him three times, and, if he
persisted in his opposition, they should seize him by the collar and
carry him a prisoner to a fort, until they could report to him on the
next day. It is to be noted that these patrols, commanders as well as
soldiers, are usually native mulattoes, and mestizos from Nueva Espana.

At the fiesta of the naval battle, at which the governor was present,
he showed extreme resentment, and uttered sharp complaints because
he who recited the epistle turned his back on the governor's
wife--doubtless thinking that he who recited the gospel had his
face turned toward her not because the rubrics require that it be
read while facing the people, but in order to show her the attention
that was due her; and therefore he criticised him who had recited the
epistle. Not less absurd was his assuming that he ought to be named
in the prayers at mass, after the king, as is done with the viceroy;
and as this was not done at a fiesta at which he was present, he was
so vexed that there also he chose to display his resentment. It was
with some difficulty that the auditors pacified him at the time