According to what I have just heard from a Spanish pilot, whom the Dutch held prisoner, and who escaped from the ships that fought with us, those two nations [_i.e._, the Dutch and the English] were negotiating a peace, in order to be able to come here with a great number of vessels, or for other advantages to them.

If the ships that I am awaiting with the reenforcements arrive, by God's help, I shall not care when the enemy comes.
[_Marginal note_: "It is well.

Through your diligence and zeal for the affairs of my service, I hope that our Lord will grant very good results in everything, since the expense and care incurred by those regions are known."] 11th.

That ship that I bought at Macan has come, with some freight charges and duties on goods that it carried.

That goes a good way toward aiding the cost of its purchase and the expense [of maintaining it].