Our
men pursued them until they killed them all. The men of Tampaca,
who had been neutral until then, in consideration of the dealings of
Fortune, and seeing that she had declared in our favor, took up arms
for us. Only seventy-seven Ternatans, badly wounded, escaped; and
fifty of these were drowned in the river, into which they had thrown
themselves in desperation. Only three of the twenty-seven survived,
and they informed their king of it. The Spaniards seized the boats,
artillery and spoils of she conquered, and became encouraged to
continue the war against infidels.
Don Francisco Tello was not neglectful of other similar occurrences. He
learned by his spies, and rumor had it, that the emperor of Japon
was collecting a large army and preparing many boats for it, and
large supplies of arms and food. It was also learned that he was
securing himself, by treaty, from the Chinese, of whom the Japanese,
because of their natural enmity, live in fear. Hence they inferred
that he was equipping himself to make war outside his kingdoms.
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