about these affairs.  I will also endeavour to have your brother and your uncle go to kiss the hands of Their Highnesses, and give them an account of the voyage if my letters are not sufficient.  Take good care of your brother.  He has a good disposition, and is no longer a boy.  Ten brothers would not be too many for you.  I never found better friends to right or to left than my brothers.  We must strive to obtain the government of the Indies and then the adjustment of the revenues.  I gave you a memorandum which told you what part of them belongs to me.  What they gave to Carbajal was nothing and has turned to nothing.  Whoever desires to do so takes merchandise there, and so the eighth is nothing, because, without contributing the eighth, I could send to trade there without rendering account or going in company with any one.  I said a great many times in the past that the contribution of the eighth would come to nothing.  The eighth and the rest belongs to me by reason of the concession which their Highnesses made to me, as set forth in the book of my Privileges, and also the third and the tenth.  Of the tenth I received nothing, except the tenth of what their Highnesses receive; and it must be the tenth of all the gold and other things which are found and obtained, in whatever manner it may be, within this Admiralship, and the tenth of all the merchandise which goes and comes from there, after the expenses are deducted.  I have already said that in the Book of Privileges the reason for this and for the rest which is before the Tribunal of the Indies here in Seville, is clearly set forth.

“We must strive to obtain a reply to my letter from their Highnesses, and to have them order that these people be paid.  I wrote in regard to this subject four days ago, and sent the letter by Martin de Gamboa, and you must have seen the letter of Juan Lopez with your own.

“It is said here that it has been ordered that three or four Bishops of the Indies shall be sent or created, and that this matter is referred to the Lord Bishop of Palencia.  After having commended me to his Worship, tell him that I believe it will best serve their Highnesses for me to talk with him before this matter is settled.

“Commend me to Diego Mendez, and show him this letter.  My illness permits me to write only at night, because in the daytime my hands are deprived of strength.  I believe that a son of Francisco Pinelo will carry this letter.  Entertain him well, because he does everything for me that he can, with much love and a cheerful goodwill.  The caravel which broke her mast in starting from Santo Domingo has arrived in the Algarves.  She brings the records of the case of the Porras brothers.  Such ugly things and such grievous cruelty as appear in this matter never were seen.  If their Highnesses do not punish it, I do not know who will dare to go out in their service with people.