Consult all about our affairs, and tell them that I do not write them in particular on account of the great pain I feel when writing.

I do not say that they must do the same, but that each one must write me and very often, for I feel great sorrow that all the world should have letters from there each day, and I have nothing, when I have so many people there.

Commend me to the Lord Adelantado in his favour, and give my regards to your brother and to all the others.
"Done at Seville, December 29.
"Your father who loves you more than himself.
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XMY Xpo FERENS." "I say further that if our affairs are to be settled according to conscience, that the chapter of the letter which their Highnesses wrote me when I departed, in which they say they will order you placed in possession, must be shown; and the writing must also be shown which is in the Book of Privileges, which shows how in reason and in justice the third and eighth and the tenth are mine.

There will always be opportunity to make reductions from this amount." Columbus's requests were not all for himself; nothing could be more sincere or generous than the spirit in which he always strove to secure the just payment of his mariners.
Otherwise he is still concerned with the favour shown to those who were treasonable to him.

Camacho was still hiding in a church, probably from the wrath of Bartholomew Columbus; but Christopher has more subtle ways of punishment.