The expedition reached the Philippines in January 1565 and went ashore in Samar, Leyte, Limasawa, Bohol, and Negros to make blood compacts, claim possession for Spain, and seize or barter foodstuffs.
[2][nb 1] An envoy went ashore seeking to make a pact with Tupas who, having heard of the return of the Spaniards, evacuated the town and relocated to the interior of the island.
The Spanish sacked the town and began construction of a stockaded camp and took possession of the whole island of Cebu in the name of Spain.
[5] Historian William Henry Scott characterizes the treaty as "... actually the terms of an unconditional surrender.
... a kind of prototype of the unequal treaties which western nations were to fasten on Oriental peoples for the next three centuries.