For the same reason, I beseech that your Majesty will please to answer that letter, and order that what is most fitting for your service be provided--since the decision is delayed three years, at the very least, and, if left for other vessels, six; and this delay might cause great harm to this land, and bring about irreparable injuries.
In these Philipinas your Majesty has some Spanish settlements; and in this city of Manila, the capital, and in the others, are usually about seven hundred men, and sometimes as many as eight hundred.

Although your Majesty has ordained that reenforcements should be sent annually from Nueva Spana, that has not been done; and, even when soldiers are sent, there are but few.

And as, after their arrival here, they have no pay or any means of gain, they suffer great hunger and privation, and cannot endure more than the dry season.

As this country is so unhealthful, and the climate so trying, most of them die, while others desert; and it is not in our power to remedy the evil.

I beseech your Majesty to be so good, if this kingdom--as being a gateway, so important for the gospel and the Christian religion, to so great and powerful kingdoms--is to be extended and increased, to order the viceroy of Nueva Spana to send every year, conformably to his orders, the troops, supplies, and arms requested by the governor of these islands.