they go back to their country
and return to their idolatries. Will your Majesty please have this
matter examined and provided for. Because of its extreme importance,
I reiterate this supplication here.

In my letter of last year, of which I enclose a duplicate herein,
I informed your Majesty of the disputes of the auditors and fiscal
with myself in regard to preeminence in office, they wishing to enact
certain measures of government and war outside of their jurisdiction;
and that because of this lack of harmony greater hindrances were
resulting to the service of God and of your Majesty, in a land so
new and so distant from your royal person. I resolved to allow them
to do as they wished, and to let go my right and the preeminences of
my office, until your Majesty should order this remedied and provided
for--believing that, in so acting, I serve you better. Affairs here
are in this condition, and I shall make no innovation until receiving
your Majesty's orders. Through my overlooking and tolerating this,
and through the arrival of the licentiate Don Antonio de Rivera,
auditor of this Audiencia, those differences have ceased, and we are
all in accord. Justice is being administered with the authority,
custom, and system of the audiencias of Castilla, and those well
regulated in the Yndias.

Captain Francisco Gali, who was sent by the archbishop and governor to
discover the route for the return to Nueva Spana from these islands,
as well as the islands and ports lying in the course, died as soon as
he reached this country. Pedro de Unamuno succeeded to his command,
with instructions not to go to China, or to its coast, because of
the great difficulties that would result. Because the said governor
charged me urgently to make him fulfil his instructions, and because I
was informed that, beyond all doubt, he was intending to go to Macan
to invest great sums of money brought by himself and the officials
of the ship, I ordered him, under severe penalties, to observe his
instructions, and not to touch at or sight the country of China. But
he, notwithstanding this edict, deviated from his straight course
and went to Macan. Contrary to the will of the commandant and the
Portuguese, and the orders of the viceroy of Yndia, he entered the
port, where they arrested him and hid his cargo. He has remained
there one year, and the expedition has been broken up. Because the
Portuguese believed that he would not return to Nueva Spana, and