By midday, I had dispatched both of our ships to their respective missions.
Señor Alcantara and the gunboat were tasked with transporting our dead and the prisoners to Boac. Once there, he was to coordinate with the cathedral for proper burial rites. On his return, he would bring Captain Roque and half of the recruits currently garrisoned in the cabecera to relieve the Buenavista detachment while my main force pushed onward to Torrijos.
Eduardo, meanwhile, took the Garay warship down the coast. A hundred and fifty rifles had been secured in crates aboard, along with Dimalanta himself, bound for Santa Cruz. The plan was to rearm the stripped recruits there—disarmed by Sadiwa weeks prior—and have them converge upon Torrijos from the east under Captain Méndez, with Dimalanta's guidance.
