About him were
the bodies of Daniel Gomez de Leon, his valet, Pantaleon de Brito,
Suero Diaz, Juan de Chaves, Pedro Maseda, Juan de San Juan, Carrion
Ponce, and Francisco Castillo--all servants of his--besides the bodies
of four very valiant slaves, who merited the same end. The outcome
was not learned until dawn, for not one of the Chinese dared enter
the governor's room that night, fearing lest a portion of the eighty
Spaniards of the galley had taken refuge there, so cowardly did their
guilt make them. The only survivors in the galley were Fray Francisco
Montilla, a discalced religious of St. Francis, and Juan de Cuellar,
the governor's secretary, who were sleeping below decks--where the
Chinese, since they are so cowardly, did not dare descend for three
days, until after the fury of the first attack had ceased. Then they
put them ashore on the Ylocos coast, on the same island of Luzon,
so that the natives would let them take water, and because the friar
and the secretary had made a certain compact with them, to surrender,
if no harm was done them.
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