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he employed two hundred and fifty Chinese to assist him in the combat. It 

 was P'an Ho-wu who was their lieutenant. The savages lay down, drowsy, 

 in the daytime and commanded the Chinese to row the ship. As they 

 were somewhat lazy, they were suddenly beaten with a whip, so that 

 several of them died. Ho-wu said, "Let us revolt and die in that way. 

 Should we submit to being flogged to death or suffer any other such ignomin- 

 ious death ? Should we not rather die in battle ? Let us stab this chieftain 

 to death and save our lives. If we are victorious, let us hoist the sails and 

 return to our country. If we should succumb and be fettered, it will be time 

 enough then to die !" Then all of them at night stabbed the chieftain to 

 death, and, seizing his head, shouted in a loud voice at the savages, who were 

 frightened and arose, not knowing what was going on. They were all killed 

 with the sword. Several fell into the water and died. Ho-wu and the others 

 took possession of their gold, valuables, and military armor. Then they pre- 

 pared the ship for their return, but lost their way, and proceeded to Annam, 

 where they were robbed by the people of that country. Wei-kuo, Wei-t'ai, and 

 thirty-two other men, being near to another ship, seized it ; and when they 

 returned (ashore), the chieftain's son, Lang Lei Mao-lin (Don Luis Perez das 

 Marinas), who stopped at So-wu (*". e., Cebu) learned of the affair from them. 

 Leading his troops, he passed quickly on (to Manila), and dispatched to 

 China a priest to state the wrong done to his father, with the request that the 

 war junk, gold, and valuables be returned, and that those men who had in- 

 curred his enmity be executed, and thus offer retribution for his father's life. 

 The (Chinese) governor, Hsii Fu-yiian, informed the governor-general of the 

 two Kuang provinces of the matter through an official communication and 

 politely sent the priest back. They pardoned Wei-t'ai for having arranged 

 this matter. Ho-wu remained in Annam and did not venture to return. 

 This was the first (Spanish) chieftain who had been slaughtered. Those of his 

 division who came down to Manila expelled the Chinese into the outer part 

 of the city. They demolished their huts; and when Mao-lin (Das Marinas) 

 returned he ordered them to build houses outside of the city, that they might 

 live there together. It is reported that when some pirates once came from 

 Japan, Mao-lin feared they might join with the Chinese, which he considered 

 would be a calamity, and again decided to drive them out. Fu-yiian sent an 

 envoy (to Manila) to invite the Chinese to come back (to China). The bar- 

 barians, however, provided the messengers with food for the voyage, and sent 

 them home ; for the Chinese merchants, from their love of profit, did not care 

 to risk their lives, so for a long time they again dwelt together in the city. 1 



Antonio de Morga, 2 after describing Marinas' plan to conquer the 

 Moluccas, thus narrates the events of the expedition: 



The governor and those who accompanied him passed the time playing on 

 the poop till the end of the first watch ; and after he had gone into his cabin 

 to rest, the other Spaniards went to their quarters for the same purpose, leav- 



1 The same event is briefly alluded to in another passage of the Ming shih, 

 where the history of the Moluccas is narrated. In Groeneveldt's translation of 

 tli is passage (Notes on the Malay Archipelago, p. 118), the erroneous render- 

 ing "Portuguese" must in each case be corrected into "Spaniards." 



"The Philippine Islands (London, Hakluyt Society, 1868), p. 35. 



