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The master-of-camp having returned from his expedition among the friendly villages, set out for Baybay, under guidance of Simaquio. This latter guided them, not to the chief city, where the prisoners from Mandam had been taken, but to the small and unimportant village of Caramucua, which was found deserted.

That same afternoon two chiefs one of whom, Simaquio, was the husband of one of the women and the father of the two children came into the fort. They declared themselves to be brothers of the chief Tupas.

Simaquio "came to deliver himself to the governor, saying that the latter could do what he wished with him and his, and that he should hold them as slaves, or sell them in Castilla, or do what he pleased with them." Legazpi permitted him to see his wife and daughters, telling him "that he had been as watchful of their honor, as if he had kept them in his own house."

Simaquio signified his desire "to be ... the friend and vassal of the king of Castilla, and to have perpetual peace and friendship, and that he would never be found lacking in it." This good treatment reassured the natives, and a few days later Tupas appeared and a treaty of peace was made, the conditions of which follow.