Before me:
_Jhoan de Cuellar_
_Testimony_: On this said day was received an oath in due legal form,
concerning the aforesaid, from Pantaleon Carnero, under which charge he
promised to tell the truth, concerning anything asked of him regarding
the subject aforementioned. This witness said that, when he was in
Macan in the former year of ninety-two, he heard it said there by
many persons that the king of Chanpan robbed Sebastian de Araujo of
a junk which he had built there, and a culverin which he had mounted
on it; and that he ordered the murder of two Spaniards aboard the
junk, and the captivity of the others. He afterward ransomed them
for gold and other things which they gave him. He subjected them to
great annoyances and ill-treatment, until one night, when they had an
opportunity, they fled, without finishing their ship, and left their
property behind them. This witness has also heard it said that about
ten years ago, he seized a junk, belonging to Don Juan de Gama, who
went ashore there in a storm. He captured the crew, and robbed them
of all their belongings. Another junk from Canboja bound for Malaca,
while Captain Roque de Melo was there, was captured by the said king
of Chanpan, with all its crew, and the merchandise that they had
with them seized. The said Rroque de Melo sent the king an embassy,
asking him to ransom the men whom he had taken prisoners on the said
junk. Half the crew was ransomed, but the others were kept by the
king. This witness has heard it said that some of the prisoners who
remained there escaped, but were caught again. The king ordered their
toes to be cut off because they had escaped. The said king of Chanpan
is a very great pirate, and usually goes about with a large fleet,
robbing and assaulting all the ships possible, making prisoners of
all their crews, along all those coasts, which he can do because he
is on the regular route. This witness has heard it said that the
said king has a large store of artillery and other arms from the
vessels that he has seized. It is the opinion of this witness that,
since the damage which the said king of Chanpan does every year to the
trading-vessels of Canboja, Çian, Patan, China, and other neighboring
places, is so great, valuable service would be done to God and the
king our sovereign, by attacking and crushing him as so dangerous an
enemy, and thus ensure the safety of that route. This witness has
also heard it said that the said king of Chanpan is so cruel, that
every year he orders the death of many of his own people, in order to
bathe in the bile of those killed. This has actually been witnessed
by many persons who have been captives there, from whom this witness
has heard it. Everything that he has said he knows to be the truth,
according to the oath he has sworn. His age is twenty-two.