I shall also endeavor to tell your Majesty what I shall ascertain and hear about the duties on the cloves of Terrenate and the factory, taking for that the depositions of the Audiencia and of the royal officials--which I shall not do now, for want of time.

In the opinion that I asked from them some days ago in regard to sending [a vessel] to trade for cloves on your Majesty's account with goods and money that I had for that purpose, Don Alvaro opposed me so strongly in everything, that one would think that he considers that the risks are mine and that it is done on my account (as if the gains were mine), rather than for your Majesty's service.

However, I sent the goods necessary for this trading, because of the gain that results from it and its investment to the royal revenues and the provisions brought from India.
[_Marginal note_: "Council.

You have already been answered as to this."] 29th.

If it is true, as has been said in regard to these despatches of ships from Terrenate, India, and Nueva Espana, that the relatives and followers of him who made and managed them have profited, now, thanks to God, things are run more openly and honestly, at least in so far as I have authority, and in matters that I can prevent or remedy.