Note 8 — Chapter XV

Two galleons arrived at Cavite on St. John’s day, which were returning from Nueva España with the reënforcements for these islands. The flagship of those vessels was called “Nuestra Señora de la Concepción” [i.e., “Our Lady of the Conception”], and the almiranta “San Luis.” They brought the new governor and a company of religious of our order, and also some of St. Dominic, among them father Fray Diego Collado.8 On July twenty-seven father Fray Diego de Ordás9 entered the convent of Manila with his mission, which was composed of twenty-five religious, who have been very useful to this province.