Some Portuguese leave the island, "many going
to the Filipinas, where Governor Don Pedro interviewed them in order
to learn the condition of affairs at Maluco." The narrative continues:]
One of those who escaped from the fort of Tydore, and reached the town
of Arevalo in Filipinas, was Antonio de Silva, a Portuguese. Besides
being a soldier he was a _naguatato_ or interpreter. This man
gave a judicial account of the matter and added that the English
[_i. e._. Dutch] general, while taking him a prisoner from Amboino,
took a sea-chart, and began to look for Mindoro, Manila, and
Cabite. Being asked by Silva, for what purpose he was looking for
them, he learned that the general intended, in case hit undertaking
at Maluco did not succeed well, to try to capture one of the vessels
plying between Filipinas and Nueva Espana. Silva replied to him
that it was not time for those vessels to sail, either way; for the
first [_i. e._, those from Nueva Espana], arrive about May ten,
and the others [_i. e.
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