Before me:
Agustin de Balencuela, notary-public.
_Testimony._ In the port of Cavite, December twenty-two, one thousand
six-hundred and thirty-five, the said judge summoned before him,
for the said investigation, the chief gunner, Daniel Alvarez, an
inhabitant of this said port. The oath was taken from him in due form
of law, before God our Lord and with the sign of the cross, under which
obligation he promised to tell the truth. Being questioned according
to the tenor of the act and the head of the process, of this other
part, this witness declared that he knows Captain Juan Dominguez, and
that what he knows and what occurred is as follows: About twenty days
or so ago, Bartolome Martin, an artilleryman, and both a countryman
and a friend of this witness, said that Captain Juan Dominguez had
communicated with him, and asked him whether he would like to go to
Espana by way of Yndia; and, if so, that he would take him also; for
he, together with ten or twelve others who were sailors, was going
to take a friar of St. Dominic to Yndia. The latter was going to take
papers and despatches from the archbishop and the orders in the city
of Manila; and they were giving the said Juan Dominguez four thousand
pesos for this enterprise. The said Bartolome Martin replied to him:
"Captain Juan Dominguez, I am equipped to go to Terrenate, to serve
in my post as artilleryman under General Don Guillermo Somante. On my
return from the voyage, I think that I shall go to Espana, the same
way by which I came. Therefore, I do not care to go." This is what
this witness knows, and what he has heard. It is the truth, under
obligation of the oath that he has taken, by which he affirmed and
ratified it. He declared that he was competent to act as a witness,
and that he is forty years old. He affixed his signature, and the
said judge signed it.