The price was eleven thousand pesos, with sails, rigging, seven anchors, and four good cables.

I am satisfied with it; and it appears at least to be made of better woods than those here.

It was made in India, and its burden is more than six hundred toneladas of the Northern Sea.

[24] Contract and agreement have been made to build another ship in Sasima [_i.e._, Satsuma ?] a province of Japon near here.

I am assured that it can be built there very well, and it will be strong and of good timber, and very well-proportioned and suitable as is needed for this line and trade with Nueva Espana.
[_Marginal note_: "Since the counsel that you have taken in this matter is very prudent; and since you have been advised in your despatches (which you have already received) as to what you shall do; and since the benefit to the royal treasury and the quality of the vessels is so well known: you shall continue the same plan for the vessels that must be built, since, as you have seen in other despatches, the vexations to the natives occupied in this shipbuilding and the heavy expenses incurred by that construction, are thus avoided.