After having commended me to his Worship, tell him that I believe it will best serve their Highnesses for me to talk with him before this matter is settled.
"Commend me to Diego Mendez, and show him this letter.

My illness permits me to write only at night, because in the daytime my hands are deprived of strength.

I believe that a son of Francisco Pinelo will carry this letter.

Entertain him well, because he does everything for me that he can, with much love and a cheerful goodwill.

The caravel which broke her mast in starting from Santo Domingo has arrived in the Algarves.