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the port of Silguattanjo, on the 31st of October, 1528, and stopped at 

 the Ladrone Islands, of which it took possession for the crown of 

 Spain. It afterwards went to Mindanao, and then pursued its voyage 

 to Timor, where part of the expedition of Loaisa was found remain- 

 ing. From Timor they made two attempts to return to New Spain, 

 both of which failed. The climate soon brought on disease, which 

 carried off a great number, and among them Sarvedra. Thus the 

 whole expedition was broken up, and the survivors found their way 

 to the Portuguese settlements. 



The fourth expedition was sent from New Spain, when under the 

 government of Don Antonio de Mendoza, for the purpose of establish- 

 ing a trade with the new islands, and it received orders not to visit 

 the Moluccas. This expedition sailed in 1542, under the command 

 of Villalobos. It reached the Philippine Islands without accident, 

 and Villalobos gave them that name after Philip II., then prince of 

 Asturias. Notwithstanding his positive instructions to the contrary, he 

 was obliged to visit the Moluccas, and met the same treatment from 

 the Portuguese that had been given to all whom they believed had 

 any intention to interfere in their spice trade. The squadron touched 

 at Ambonia, where Villalobos died, an event which caused the break- 

 ing up of the expedition ; and the few Spaniards that remained em- 

 barked in the Portuguese vessels to return home. 



The fifth and last expedition was ordered by Philip II. to be sent 

 from Mexico, when under the government of Don Luis de Velasco, 

 for the final conquest and settlement of the Philippines. With this 

 expedition was sent Andres Urdaneta, a friar, whose reputation stood 

 very high as a cosmographer : he had belonged to the ill-fated expe- 

 dition of Loaisa. This was the largest that had yet been fitted out 

 for this purpose, numbering five vessels and about four hundred men. 

 The command of it was intrusted to Segaspi, under whom it sailed 

 from the port of Natividad, on the 21st of November, 1564, and upon 

 whom was conferred the title of governor and adelantado of the con- 

 quered lands, with the fullest powers. On the 13th of February, 

 1565, he arrived at the island of Sandaya, one of the Philippines: 

 from thence he went to Leyte; there he obtained the son of a powerful 

 chief as a guide, through whom he established peace with several of 

 the native rulers, who thereafter aided the expedition with all the 

 means in their power. At Bohol they built the first church. There 

 he met and made peace with a chief of Luzon, with whom he went 

 to that island. 



