pense for your Majesty's exchequer, but there will be gained
more than twenty thousand pesos. In accordance therewith will your
Majesty please signify your will.

As I wrote your Majesty last year, troops have been sent for the
pacification of the Cambales, and in their proceedings with the natives
the severity and chastisement which they deserved were dispensed
with. Garrisons were established, and many of the chiefs were subdued;
they appeared to act sincerely, and gave evidence of being tractable
and living in peace and justice. The troops returned, and thereupon the
pacified ones, and those who still remained to be reduced, came down
from the mountains to the highways, robbed, murdered, and committed
innumerable injuries. Therefore I determined to lay a heavier hand
upon them, and to bring them to open warfare, if that could be done
conscientiously, after consulting with the religious orders, and after
I had made inquiries concerning the damages, treacheries, uprisings,
and crimes of the Cambales, and the reasons and causes therefor.

All the religious orders concurred in the opinion that war by fire and
sword was justifiable, as is evident by the original opinions which I
send herewith to your Majesty. In conformity therewith I resolved to
strike the blow at once by sending troops with six captains. Under
each captain was a troop of twenty Spanish soldiers and five or
six hundred Indians--Pampangos, who were willing to go to war, and
gave much assistance, because of the damages received by them from
the Cambales. They approached that country, which had never before
been entered, by six routes; and although they were troubled by the
roughness of the roads and the large brambles, they hid themselves
and destroyed all the food and the crops which were either harvested
or growing. In that region those whom they killed and took captive
amount, men and women, to more than two thousand five hundred;
and from the men taken the captains and soldiers gave me about four
hundred Sambales. I have utilized them for your Majesty's service on
the galleys, where they are learning to row. Many have been reduced
by famine, and have formed settlements where they were ordered to do
so. As it was the rainy season, and the troops were dying, I commanded
them to withdraw, leaving garrisons at convenient points, and well
provisioned, in order that they might overrun the country and destroy
their rice and grain. I believe that, because of