The narrative continues:]
The Hollanders or Zealanders, confederated with Queen Isabel [_i.e._,
Elizabeth of England], being witnesses of that event [_i.e._, the
defeat of the armada], were encouraged to aspire to greater efforts,
in disobedience to their religion and to their sovereign, to usurp
the eastern riches--mines, spices, drugs, and silks--as is seen by
their reckless voyages, in which they have been emulous of the recent
examples set by the English, and by the more ancient ones left us
by Colon, Alburquerque, Magallanes, Gama, and Cortes, as we shall
see later....
After Santiago de Vera became governor of the Filipinas, he was
especially ordered to equip a fleet to attack Ternate, where the
English, from that time forward, were trading with all security. All
nations had established factories there, except the Javanese and the
Lascars. More than two thousand five hundred Moros from Meca were
preaching their abominable doctrine. They did not fear Portugal; all
their fear was caused by the Castilians, whom but lately they found
pledged to vengeance.
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