d Quiapo. There they set a large fire, and
then immediately extinguished it. Half an hour later they built a
larger fire, which lasted a longer time. This was a signal for the
Sangleys in the Parian to assault the city, and take it. Although
the Sangleys of the Parian saw the fire, they did not then dare to
attack the city; for they were divided into factions, as the wealthy
merchants did not wish to risk their property. But as those who had
little to lose were in the great majority, they forced them to attack,
and calling to the mob, they assailed the city. [19] It is said that
they saw over the gate opposite the Parian (which they were about
to attack) a crucified Christ dripping blood, and at His feet the
seraphic father, St. Francis, with face uplifted toward Him. On this
account they became so faint-hearted that they were forced to retire,
without being observed from the city, as it was night. Those in
Quiapo set fire to it and burned it. They killed some natives, whose
moans and cries were heard on the city walls. At this juncture day
dawned, and it was seen that the enemy were marching to their camp,
in order to fortify themselves in a chapel called San Francisco del
Monte, two leguas from the city. There they established themselves,
and fortified a stronghold built of stakes filled in well with earth,
to a man's height, and furnished with two ditches of fresh water. It
seemed suitable for twenty thousand men, and had very skilfully
laid-out streets. This means that more than two hundred Sangleys
were building it for more than a month, but with so great quietness
that it was never known; for it was a district little frequented by
Spaniards, as it was swampy. The men began to gather there again, so
that at noon on Saturday, the fourth of October, the enemy had more
than ten thousand men in camp. On that day the Christian Sangleys
of Tondo and Minondo rose. When Don Luys de las Marinas saw this,
and the help that he was awaiting having arrived, he attacked them
with great spirit and killed many of them. But as he perceived that
his men were about to be attacked by a great number of people, he
requested the governor to send him a second reenforcement quickly. The
governor hesitating as to whom to send, Captain Don Tomas Bravo de
Acuna, his nephew, begged to be assigned to this task, and to take his
company, numbering seventy good soldiers--musketeers and arquebusiers,
a picked body of men. Besides this almost all the