wish to accede to this, but placed a great amount of property in the
city. The governor, seeing that they did not wish to enter, ordered
each one to be given a certificate granting him life; and had them
told that he who did not have one of these would be regarded as one
who had come from the enemy's camp. After this resolution the governor
and Audiencia left the Parian on Monday at noon. On the morning of
that day, some Spaniards and four hundred Japanese had left the city,
at the governor's orders, to attack the enemy. They did so and killed
more than fifteen hundred men, and burned all their food. This obliged
them to break camp and to return toward the city, marching in three
squadrons, numbering fifteen hundred men. Every moment they were
joined by bands of two hundred and three hundred. They assembled in a
town called Dilao, situated about three musket-shots from the city,
at twelve o'clock in the morning. They united all their forces, and
carried on operations from a very strong large stone house, which
was the chapel of Nuestra Señora de Candelaría. Two days before, her
image had been carried into the city in most solemn procession. On
that day it rained heavily, and as those in the houses were fearful
lest the enemy would set fire to their dwellings, they had removed
the nipa [20] with which they were covered. In the houses built of
stone and tile there was not standing-room, as all or most of the
people gathered there, both women and children, and those incapable
of bearing arms. All was confusion and lamentation, because of this,
and since more than sixteen hundred Sangleys were in sight of the
city. Most of the people distributed themselves along that part of
the wall; and in the cavaliers and ravelins were mounted pieces of
artillery. Until now no resolution had been taken whether to put
to the sword those Sangleys who remained in the Parián, or to set
the Parián afire, or to let the people benefit from the sack of it,
which was worth more than eighty thousand pesos. However there was no