That was an undertaking disproportionate to the possibility of his forces, and innumerable evils resulted from it, just as they generally result to him who does not proportion means to ends, and who does not measure desires with strength.

When he fought at Playa Honda with the Dutch, as he grappled he recognized the advantage that the larger ships had over the others.

Consequently, he determined to build his ships so large that they should be superior to any ship that the enemy would bring.

For that purpose he made them of one thousand, one thousand five hundred, and nearly two thousand toneladas.

He began to make arrangements for putting his desire into execution, and at the same time to write to the viceroy of India to send him ten more galleons and six galleys, so that the forces of both governments being united, they might at the same time complete the expulsion of the Dutch from the archipelago and seize their forts and factories.