If your Majesty so pleases, they can be constructed very easily, and at but little expense; and if there were any money in your royal chest, I would have had them built already.

I entreat your Majesty to have some concession granted us from Mexico, and advise me of your pleasure.
In a former letter, I informed your Majesty of the arrival of a Japanese vessel laden with flour and horses (which they were bringing to this city), at the city of Segovia, in the province of Cagayan, in these islands.

They had been driven upon the coast there, and some of the crew and horses escaped death.

As soon as I learned of this, I sent a vessel for them, and, upon their arrival, showed them great hospitality; for this they were so grateful that they published in their country great praises of this land, and of the kind treatment accorded them.

Certain of them, together with others--both Christians and pagans, up to about forty--returned with letters from the king of Firando, and from Don Gaspar, his brother, the originals of which are enclosed here.