 There natives who went to the ship, seeing it so abandoned and battered, boarded and took possession of it, and of its goods and property.The few men whom they found alive, they took away to their settlements, where they killed some and apportioned others to various villages, where they maintained them and gave them better treatment.Shortly after he had taken over the government, Tello received news of the death of Estevan Rodríguez de Figueroa in Mindanao.