The Spaniards and creoles do not belie
their high origin.
By order of King Filipo an army was formed from all this people, in
order to attempt to take the forts of Maluco. Don Goncalo Ronquillo
de Penalosa was governor. Although he had received beforehand certain
information by way of trade and the spies that had gone there, he
was not satisfied with them, and sent another soldier to Maluco. The
latter changed his clothes, and then with that and his aspect,
which was not unlike that of the natives, and their language, which
he spoke fluently, went to Tydore. He found our men very desirous of
the enterprise, and the king of that island ready to push it with his
forces. He went to Ternate with the merchants, and saw the fortresses
and the reefs about the ports; and sounded their friendship with
the English. He found that the latter landed and traded securely--or
rather, as if by right. Nor was the multitude of secret Christians
unknown to him, who would take up arms in due season; nor any of the
other things, that, as an experienced spy, it was necessary for him to
report.
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