pesos. Twenty Indian deck-hands, at two pesos a month. Total: three
hundred and twenty pesos.

Grand total: twenty-two thousand two hundred and seventy pesos.

_Francisco de las Missas_
_Jhoan de Bustamante_
_Ventura de St. Tillen_


Official Statement in Regard to the Re-enforcement at Maluco

(_To be sent to his Majesty_)

In the city of Manila, on the second of October, one thousand
six hundred and two, Don Pedro de Acuña, knight of the Order of
San Juan, commander of Salamanca, governor and captain-general of
these Philipinas Islands, and president of the royal Audiencia and
Chancillería which sits therein, made the following declaration. A
month ago, or thereabouts, he received news and information from Señor
Andrés Hurtado de Mendoça that he was in the fortress of Ambona with a
force which he had brought from the city of Goa to conquer and seize
the kingdom of Terrenate, and that to complete the enterprise he was
in great need of assistance from these islands in men, provisions,
and other things. He accordingly requested such assistance, and to this
end had sent Father Andres Pereira of the Society of Jesus and Captain
Antonio de Brito Fogassa, as appears from the letters and advices
in their possession, to which reference is made. His Lordship, the
auditors and fiscal of the royal Audiencia and Chancillería of these
said islands, and the officers of the royal exchequer--to whom by one