city, whereupon Sargento-mayor Ascoeta went Out
with 220 Spanish arquebusiers, 400 Japanese, 2,000 Pampanga Indians
(of whom 1,500 were arquebusiers and musketeers, and the others were
armed with spears, swords and arrows), 200 Monos, [21] and 300 blacks,
who came as friends to take part in this war. After having gone only
seven leguas, they met the enemy, and having rested four days, they
formed their camp. After having found where the enemy could retreat,
and holding them at every point, they attacked the Sangleys, of whom
they killed more than four hundred. Their master-of-camp retreated
to a little elevation near by, after defending himself with great
courage. Our men rested until morning of the next day, when they went
to give them the "Santiago," and killed fourteen hundred. Three hundred
fled, and hid in the thickets and woods there-about. Our men fortified
themselves with the food that the enemy had there. On the morning of
the following day they went in pursuit of the three hundred who had
hidden and attacked them, and not one of them was left alive. This
victory was obtained without the death of more than twelve Christian
Indians. Our camp rested for three days, and on the fourth began to
march to another village, on the seashore, called Batangas. There
they found a troop of twenty-five hundred hostile Sangleys with ships
and boats, with the intention of going to their own country. After
five days' march our leader sighted the enemy, whereupon he ordered
a halt and drew up his men. On the morning of the next day he gave
battle with great fury, and killed one thousand one hundred and two
Sangleys. The rest, badly crippled, sought refuge in the mountains in
the interior. The Spaniards did not go in pursuit of them, for they
were very tired after their six hours of fighting, while some were
wounded. Consequently Sargento mayor Ascoeta sent an Indian chief,
one Don Ventura de Mendoca, with two hundred Pampanga Indians, to
pursue them. In a few days all the Sangleys were killed. After this
good result and victory the sargento-mayor retired with his camp,
without losing a man outside of twelve Indians and one Japanese,
while seventeen Spaniards were wounded. The most dangerously wounded
was the captain of the guard, Martin de Herrera, who was wounded with
two spear-thrusts through the thighs. He has proved himself a very
honorable and gallant soldier on all occasions. The sargento-mayor
immediately sent a messenger t