[131] Cuckara, the ladle formerly used to charge cannon which used no cartridge, but the loose powder from the barrel.
[132] The count of Essex, who in command of an English squadron captured the city of Cadiz in 1596. He sacked the city and killed many of the inhabitants, leaving the city in ruins. Drake in 1587 had burned several vessels in the same harbor.
[133] Called "San Antonio" above.
[134] Portuguese, above.
[135] The present port of Mariveles, as is seen from Colin's map.—Rizal.
[136] Juan Francisco Valdés was preacher in the convent of Santo Niño de Cebú in 1599, and was a missionary in Caruyan from 1600 until 1606. He died in 1617. Juan Gutiérrez was assistant in the council [discreto] of the general chapter of his order of 1591. He returned to Manila after three years and was definitor and minister of Tondo in 1596, and of Parañaque 1602-1603. After that he returned to Rome a second time as definitor-general, whence he went to Mexico, where he exercised the duties of procurator in 1608. See Pérez's Catalogo.
[137] Perhaps "in the direction of the island Del Fraile" is meant here, since no port of that name is known.—Rizal.
The expression occurs, however, in at least one other contemporaneous document.
[138] Now Punta de Fuego [i.e., Fire Promontory].—Rizal.
[139] The Dutch account of this combat says that their flagship carried fifty-three men before the fight, of whom only five were killed and twenty-six wounded.—Rizal.