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Of the expeditions and pacifications necessary.
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_That much can be gained, and many Christians made, at but little cost._ First: To his Majesty should be declared the new mode and new circumstances in which we can justly make (and they have been made for several years) expeditions and pacifications in this land.

He should know that this may be done with few troops, and at slight cost, and with great facility, and the advantage that will be gained if the troops are paid and under military rule; for the land is so divided into many islands, and between many petty rulers--who quarrel easily among themselves, and ally themselves with us, and maintain themselves with but little of our assistance.

In all this, his Majesty has a very extensive equipment for performing great service to our Lord (and doing good to so many souls--_Madrid MS._), and in extending the Christian religion and the church, and his royal name, in lands so strange, and broad, and thickly populated.
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