Editing Lakandula (section)

==Expedition to Pampanga and Bulacan, late 1571==
Later that year, Legaspi sent Martin de Goiti to spread Spanish rule to the peoples of what are now the provinces of [[Bulacan]] and [[Pampanga]], particularly the territories of [[Lubao, Pampanga|Lubao]] with [[Macabebe, Pampanga|Macabebe]], [[Guagua, Pampanga|Guagua]] on September 14, 1571. One month later they conquered [[Calumpit]] and [[Malolos]] in November 14 of the same year. Legazpi conceded these settlements under Spanish rule. He sent Lakandula and Sulayman with him, because, as one account has it, "if so great a chief should go with him, when the Tagalogs and Pampangos saw that he had given obedience to His Majesty, they would give it also."<ref name="scottparchment"/><ref name="inarticulate"/>

The account continues:<ref name="scottparchment"/> <blockquote>"''Lacandola agreed to go, and served with two ships provided at his cost, and distinguished himself by performing much service for His Majesty, and went along so the said Pampangos would give him obedience, as in fact they did.''"</blockquote>

These boats were ''[[Juanga (ship)|joangas]]'' (''[[karakoa]]''), a type of seacraft capable of carrying 300 men each,<ref name="inarticulate"/><ref name="ScottBarangay"/> which, as Dery<ref name="inarticulate"/> points out, were common in [[Maritime Southeast Asia]].