Outside of that I remember nothing more in this particular.
I shall not neglect to tell your Majesty what occurs to me in this matter, so that you may take what measures in it are deemed fitting: namely, that eight out of ten of the influential men that come here come with the governors, and the other two in various ways and through various causes, and with honorable intents.

Of those other and common men who came to retail what they bought there [_i.e._, in Espana], those who established a place in order to gamble, and those who came under sentence (and these men are numerous), some, because of having acquired money, try to imitate the men of rank and merits here.

Of a truth there are many of the latter to esteem, and I shall do it, employing each one as he deserves and for what he is suitable.

For that reason, however, it is not advisable that the number of the influential, good and useful men should not continue to increase.

I assure your Majesty that not a few of those whom I brought with me were such, and some of them of qualities no less excellent than those above mentioned possess.