This would indeed be making a pretty game of war, and cutting their throats with a wooden sword.

And I assure your Majesty that this idea is not only my own, but that of all experienced men in Maluco There resides at this court Juan Gomez de Cardenas, who gained considerable experience in Japon with a Dutch factor, who never thought that this man was a vassal of your Majesty.

The latter made known to him the said reason, and said that they feared nothing until your Majesty should send there six or more galleys.
It now remains to tell the ease and little cost with which your Majesty could maintain these galleys and man them; and if this is explained for one, it holds in regard to all.

The hull of a galley of twenty-four benches, put together and fitted for sailing, costs in the Filipinas four thousand ducats.

The gang to man it must be secured in this manner.