They were all beheaded and thrown into the
sea. The Chinese pillaged all their cargo, and after dividing the
booty, sailed for their own country. They only kept with them one
wretched Spanish woman who accompanied our men. They left her alive,
but after having insulted and maltreated her, left her on the first
Chinese shore that they reached. She went then to the magistrates
there, and informed them of the treachery committed by those people,
and of the violence that they had inflicted on her. But although
the judges were courteous to her, no satisfaction was given her for
her injuries, and she was unable to obtain justice. On the contrary
they ordered her to be taken into the interior by certain agents,
and delivered to other supreme judges. On that journey, which was
very long and many leguas, she endured greater hardships--until
some governors, taking compassion on her and her tears, took her to
the city of Macao, where the Portuguese reside, and they set her at
liberty. Through that means, the whole deed was learned, and was in
the mouth of all in Manila; and upon the occasion of this expedition,
they exaggerated it still more.
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