ght,
as was not previously the case. When claims were made for wages
and other expenses, the Audiencia commanded them to be paid from
the royal treasury; and thus many such payments have been made on
the account of those who really owed them. At the present time the
judges, being informed in regard to these claims, have decided that
they are not due from your Majesty. Accordingly your Majesty is not
only not obliged to pay them, but has a right to claim satisfaction,
for the expenditures from the royal treasury, from the property of
the governor Don Francisco; and, in case it is insufficient, from
the property of the assessor by whose advice they were incurred.

As to the provision of an incumbent for this office, it should be
noticed that most affairs in this country depend upon it--especially
the proper care of the Indians, which is most important; for with
this office is united that of being their protector. I have always
striven to attend to this matter carefully, as I have done in other
matters pertaining to your royal service. This I shall continue to do
in these islands until an appointment is made: and I petition your
Majesty to grant me, when that shall come, permission to leave this
kingdom, the governor that shall be in office making me a sufficient
allowance for my passage hence. God keep the Catholic personage of
your Majesty, with the increase of your realms. Manila, July, 1606.

The licentiate _Rodrigo Diaz Guiral_

The Terrenate Expedition

Sire:

In the Council of War for the Indias there have been presented two
letters from Don Pedro de Acuna, governor and captain-general of the
Filipinas, written to your Majesty on the first and seventh of July
of the year 605 just past, copies of which are enclosed. In them your
Majesty, if so pleased, will see in what condition is the expedition
for the capture of Terrenate, and how the governor went in person
with it, with a great deal of confidence in a favorable outcome,
on account of the excellent reenforcement that had been sent to him
under the command of the master-of-camp, Juan Desquivel. Although they
were fewer in number than what he had asked for, nevertheless he was
pleased with the companies that he had seen, and he expected to join
with them some men from that garrison and some other available men,
and some Indians (Panpangas and others from that vicinity) among whom
are excellent arquebusiers and musketeers, who approve themselves
very