He founded there his colony,
with suitable arrangements, so that our people could settle it. He
appointed regidors and ministers of justice, and called it Nueva
Murcia in honor of the Murcia of Espana, his native region. Then
he left affairs incomplete, intending to marry the widow of Estevan
Rodriguez, Dona Ana de Oseguera; and reached Filipinas in the first
part of June. Governor Don Francisco Tello, hearing of the event
at El Embocadero, [290] one hundred leguas from Manila, and having
been warned of Xara's design in coming, arrested him at his arrival,
and sent Captain Toribio de Miranda to take charge of the war in
Mindanao. The latter found the troops withdrawn to the port of La
Caldera, which is on the same island, but distant thirty-six leguas
from the mouth of the river. There they remained until August, when
Don Francisco Tello appointed Don Juan Ronquillo in Manila as captain;
he was also captain of the galleys. He also appointed as captains, to
accompany him, Pedro Arceo, Covarrubias and others; as master-of-camp,
Diego Chaves Canizares; as sargento-mayor, Garcia Guerrero; and as
captains of infantry, Christoval Villagra and Cervan Gutierrez.
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