For certainly I feel great fear, as the cold is so inimical to this, my infirmity, that I may have to remain on the road.
"I was very much pleased to hear the contents of your letter and what the King our Lord said, for which you kissed his royal hands.
It is certain that I have served their Highnesses with as much diligence and love as though it had been to gain Paradise, and more, and if I have been at fault in anything it has been because it was impossible or because my knowledge and strength were not sufficient.
God, our Lord, in such a case, does not require more from persons than the will.
"At the request of the Treasurer Morales, I left two brothers in the Indies, who are called Porras.

The one was captain and the other auditor.

Both were without capacity for these positions: and I was confident that they could fill them, because of love for the person who sent them to me.

They both became more vain than they had been.
I forgave them many incivilities, more than I would do with a relation, and their offences were such that they merited another punishment than a verbal reprimand.

Finally they reached such a point that even had I desired, I could not have avoided doing what I did.