hat province ended in
Cagayan. The governor realized the importance of the expedition from
this relation, and through two Indian women (by the medium of two
interpreters from that land); and saw that the sure pacification of
all Cagayan and of this island of Luzon, and the removal of errors
by ascertaining with certainty what it contained, depended on that
expedition. There was also reasonable ground, from the indications and
reports adduced, for expecting that there must be many undiscovered
Indian settlements. Accordingly he determined--although against the
advice of the Spaniards who had lived longest in the country, who
declared that the country was thoroughly explored and that there was
nothing else to explore in it--to send his son, Don Luis Dasmarinas,
thither to make the said new exploration of Tuy. The latter was to be
accompanied by the captain and sargento-mayor, Juan Xuarez Gallinato,
Captain Don Alonso de Sotomayor, and Captain Cristoval de Asqueta
(all old residents), and seventy soldiers, most of whom the governor
had brought new with him from Espana, besides certain of the governor's
servants and some other soldiers who had been here in the country. The
said Don Luis was accompanied also by two fathers, religious of the
Order of St. Augustine, for the greater justification both of the
expedition and of the mildness with which he was to proceed. One was
the definitor, Fray Diego Gutierrez, and the other, Fray Mateo de
Peralta. Juan de Argumedo, and even many soldiers and others, private
persons, who came to the governor to ask permission to go with his
son, accompanied Don Luis halfway, but halted in La Pampanga, as they
did not appear to be needed. To these latter the governor refused the
permission, although very much pleased at seeing so great willingness
and readiness in all of them to follow his son, and to take part in
this or in any other expedition that might offer, and which for lack
of system and resolute action could not be continued throughout, as
was fitting, according to the arrangement and outcome of affairs. The
title of lieutenant to the captain-general was given to the said Don
Luis, with the following orders and instructions. He was instructed
especially to tell his father in detail all that should happen.

_Warrant of Don Luis Perez Dasmarinas for the exploration of the
province of Tuy._

Gomez Perez Dasmarinas, etc. Inasmuch as I have been informed by the
relations of persons of cre