Where they used to give six fanegas of rice for one toston, they now ask three pesos, at one toston a fanega.

They used to sell twelve to sixteen fowls for four reals; at present, when there are no large fowls, they cost two or three reals apiece, instead of a toston.

A hog that used to cost alive four to six reals now costs six or seven pesos, and no one is found to buy.

This witness thinks that the cause for the high prices in this country is that so many Spaniards have come hither, that so many of the natives of these islands have perished, and that so few people cultivate the soil or breed fowls or swine.

[4] The witness knows this because, during the four years that he has spent in this land, he has seen that the conditions and events are as he has described them.