After the above events, on Monday, the fourteenth of the said month
of April, one thousand five hundred and seventy-eight, about noon, the
said governor having seen that the said Borneans had returned no answer
to his letters, nor had they sent back the two above-mentioned chiefs
and six Moros from Balayan (his Majesty's vassals, who accompanied
the chiefs), and because his Majesty's fleet was in great danger,
as it had not made port; that a number of vessels belonging to the
said Borneans were on the point of beginning hostilities, and that
the Borneans showed by certain tokens that they were anxious for
war and not peace--for this reason commencing to fire and discharge
many pieces of artillery at his Majesty's said fleet and soldiers:
therefore he ordered that the said fleet, disposed in good order,
enter the said port, placing at the bow of the said flagship a white
flag of peace, that, if the said Borneans wished peace, he might make
it with them. And at the coming of the said fleet of his Majesty, thus
arranged, the Borneans in the said port--to the number of fifty ships,
large and small, rather more than less--began to resist the entrance
into the port of the said fleet, firing many pieces of artillery at
the said fleet of his Majesty and the Spaniards in it, until, after
some time, the fleet of his Majesty entered the said port, when the
said Borneans retired and fled toward the said river of Borney with
many ships in pursuit of them. Thus did the said fleet anchor in the
said port against the will of the said Borneans. Of all the above,
I, the said notary, testify herewith. These things took place before
me, as a person aboard the said fleet; and I herewith testify to
the same--Andres de Villanueva, the ensign Francisco Banon, Hernan
Ramirez Plata, Juan de Argumedo, and others, being witnesses.