Indeed the hate of the Portuguese goes so far that they attack the remnants of Luis Perez's expedition as it is about to return home.

All their hostility they clinch with "a royal decree given more than thirty years ago, in which your Majesty [38] orders Castilians not to go to that port to trade.

It is very important for your Majesty to order the Portuguese not to use that decree for the evil that they do us--not only those of us who go there to trade (which was the reason of its being granted), but also to those of us who make port and arrive there wrecked." Events of Pedro Acuna's government occupy the sixth chapter.

"Don Pedro was a restrained and absolutely uncovetous gentleman, and lived temperately.

He was affable and open to all; but signal disasters occurred during his term.