I am also writing to the viceroy not to waste time and money in making unnecessary repairs on the ships, and those for which their captains and commanders do not ask; for that is of use only for those who have slaves who act as calkers and as other kinds of mechanics, in which they sometimes gain more in such works than they are worth.
In the same way [I have requested] that he shall not furnish rigging and other supplies unless they are requested; for I am sending the vessels from here already provided, for both going and coming, with everything necessary (even the candles), in the endeavor to avoid the expense caused to your Majesty in the past with such outlays as have been made, and with the things brought here.

This can be very well avoided, because there have been certain articles that can be obtained here for one-tenth as much as they cost in Nueva Espana, both rigging and other things that are not needed; while ammunition and arms are so extremely necessary.

Of these, on the occasion that I have mentioned, there was known to be a very great lack.

The mistake must have been occasioned by my saying, in regard to the arms that I requested, that powder-horns were unnecessary here (as is the fact).

But it was not to be understood by that that the arquebuses and muskets for arming the infantry should come without powder-horns.