In other matters pertaining to this, I refer to the report that, as above stated, in enclosed herewith.
[_Marginal note_: "It is well.

Have the fiscal examine this section." _In another hand_: "It was taken to the fiscal."] 40th.

I had already made a beginning in what your Majesty orders to be done in the opening and working of gold mines, as I was desirous of obtaining such an order by authority, with excellent news.

What I can impart of it is the news written me by Captain Garcia de Aldana, to whom I entrusted it.

[31] Consequently, I am sending his letter and a copy with this, and his duplicate, in which he adds that they have greater hopes than those that we promised ourselves from the mines, since we had to continue the entrance into those provinces, and endeavor to enjoy the fruits of our labor, with the pacification and reduction of so many people to the service of your Majesty, and their souls to the service of God (which is the thing of chief importance).