If I avail myself of their services in any unavoidable and necessary labor, I do so, by paying them beforehand, saving the money from other things for it.

Consequently, they now rather desire the opportunity to earn money by their services or the products of their fields, which now they reckon and hold as their own.

I trust that, with divine favor, this will go daily from good to better, and that everything will succeed in the same way, until acts of injustice to these poor wretches will be avoided.

Although I was taking delight in doing thus, now I am very happy, for I have learned what your Majesty desires, and that you commit this to me.
They and we are so well supplied with churches that inside this city and about one legua around it, there are thirty of them, unless I have counted wrong; and of those not three are of other material than stone, nor are there as many others that fail to cause expense to your Majesty and labor to the natives--and this in one legua about the city as I have said, in a semicircle, which is even not entire, for the other half falls within this bay.

I have not resolved before now to inform your Majesty of it, because I hesitated, on the grounds that our Lord would be just so much better served by the increase of churches, and these Christians would be better governed.