sect of Mahoma, which is
being extended through this archipelago, has [not] yet arrived there_.

_Guido de Lavacares_. When Guido de Lavacares was governor of these
islands, he sent an expedition to explore this land, as he had learned
of a densely-populated and very fertile province eighty leguas from
the city of Manila, in the northern part of these islands. For this
exploration he sent Captain Chacon; but the latter managed the affair
so poorly that, after having covered half the distance and reached the
place called Bongavon, he returned to the city of Manila with his men,
under pretext of having no guides, without bringing any account.

_Doctor Santiago de Vera_. Doctor Santiago de Vera, who succeeded
to the said office, having been informed of the same region, sent
an Indian chief, named Don Dionisio Capolo, who is still living. He
gave the latter one hundred Indians for the said exploration. This
man returned after having gone sixty leguas from Manila--twenty more
than the former expedition--on the said exploration. He reported that
Indians of the country, his acquaintances, upon learning his errand,
advised him not to proceed farther, for the people whom he was going
to discover were numerous and warlike, and were hostile and would kill
him. And inasmuch as he had no order to fight, and had but few men,
he returned.

_Gomez Perez Dasmarinas_. In the year one thousand five hundred and
ninety-one, Gomez Perez Dasmarinas, governor of the said islands, sent
his son, Don Luis Perez Dasmarinas, with seventy or eighty Spanish
soldiers, and many Indian chiefs of La Pampanga, who were going with
their arms and men to serve with Don Luis, to explore the province
now called Tuy. The chiefs took more than one thousand four hundred
Indian bearers. Don Luis, having reached the river called Tuy, [50]
which is at the entrance of the said province, ordered a cross to be
made there on a tree, rendered thanks to God, and took possession,
in his Majesty's name, on the fifteenth of July of the said year. On
the sixteenth, after having told the inhabitants of that village,
which was called Tuy, that he came in order to make them friends of
the Castilians, and to have them render homage to his Majesty, so
that the latter might take them under his royal protection, and so
that they might be instructed in matters of the faith--for which he
[Don Luis] had brought religious; and after having given them a few
small articles, as pieces