They have no port there for large vessels, but only a bay where vessels which anchor there are kept at a distance from the land in the mud, aground, so that they cannot make use of them when they wish.

Accordingly the galleys could easily burn those which lie there.

If Don Juan de Silva had adopted this measure, the enemy would already be subdued; and your Majesty would not have spent so great sums of money, and so exhausted the Filipinas Islands.
Sixth, the forces which your Majesty possesses in Maluco would be maintained with much less cost than at present by means of these galleys.

For as there are no supplies in those islands it is necessary to send them from the Filipinas, which entails three difficulties.

The first is that prices are thus made higher in that country, and the natives thereof are oppressed; the second, that it costs your Majesty a great deal, with the ships and men that are needed to man them; and the third, that the enemy gets a great deal of the aid which is sent.