_Juan de Alcega_

_Domingo Birral_

Before me:

_Felipe Roman_, notary public.


And after the above the said alcalde-mayor caused to appear before
him Don Juan Lisin, an Indian chief of the said village of Cubao, who
received the oath through the said interpreter, was sworn according
to the law; and on this oath, being questioned in accordance with
the interrogatory, he deposed as follows:

In reply to the first question this witness declared that he knew that,
at the time when the Spaniards discovered and pacified these islands,
all the natives thereof--and especially those of this province,
as this witness has seen--wore no other garments than those made
of the cloths which they then wove, which were very good; nor did
they care to use, instead of this, stuffs from other countries. And
although one or two ships came from China, these carried no cloth,
but only plates, horns, iron, and _camanguian_, which they took in
exchange for rice and gold, and for cotton in the boll, where this
was grown. And thus he replied to this question.

To the second question he said that since the Spaniards had settled
in the city of Manyla, the Sangleys--who at various times had formed
settlements there--seeing there were Spaniards in the country, and
that the money they brought was different from that which had been