Nevertheless, all possible care is being taken to prepare another.

May our Lord be pleased to direct it, since it is so important for the things of His service.

By the despatches that you will receive from the hand of the castellan Pedro de Heredia, you will understand about the two hundred infantrymen, with which your present need will be supplied, until the more important aid is made ready.

Inasmuch as you are advised of other things touching this matter in the despatch of the said castellan, nothing more will be told you of it, as I refer you to what it contains."] 6th.

For this purpose, very acceptable aid has come to me with the arrival of the factor, Diego de Castro Lison.