Following this decision the governor
sent a message to the provinces of Pintados ordering captain Juan
Xuarez Gallinato, chief of them, to provide all necessaries for the
expedition, and himself to sail with his best disciplined infantry
from Cebu to the city of Arevalo, the place assigned for assembling
the fleet. Gallinato did this, and also sent a vessel to Oton to
lade as much as possible of the supplies. It reached Oton October
twenty-eight, and the same day Don Pedro left Manila for Pintados,
in order, by his presence, to inspire greater haste in the despatch
of the fleet, which was already almost ready in Oton. He arrived
there November thirteen. So fiery was his spirit that he assembled
the reenforcement and entrusted it to Juan Xuarez Gallinato--without
allowing the expeditions from Xolo and Mindanao to embarrass him, even
though he saw the natives of those islands, divided into different
bodies among the Pintados, pillaging and murdering his Majesty's
vassals--and appointed him general and commander of that expedition.
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