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[128] For this investigation the governor named, as associates of the judge, his Majesty's accountant, Captain Don Juandel Pozo Gattica, and Sargento-mayor Lucas Mateo de Urquiza. The secretinquiry ended a week ago, but they have not made known the findingstherein, which are said to be favorable. Only the Dominican fathers, in whom he trusted for this emergency, have aided him by contributing[a document of] fifty-three sections, regarding his entire life andcharacter--many of these concerning t...he Zambals of Playahonda, whomhe had assigned to the Dominicans; [129] and the first section goesto show that he "lacked the chief qualifications of a knight"--theway in which they speak of him. The city, through its attorney, made fifty-six charges against him; and among these they demandedfrom him damages for the losses that this community had sufferedfrom the return to port of the ship or galleon "Santa Rosa"--becauseinstead of ballast they placed in it wax, and for fifteen hundredother articles that were included in the lading of the ship.
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