erests, for the gain which he would secure
from the growth of the teaching of the gospel here is large enough. It
is not fitting that your Majesty should entrust the residencia of
the governor here to the Audiencia, or to any member thereof; but
it should be made by the person who is to succeed him, if he be a
person such as I have described. For there are many serious matters
for which a Christian and impartial judge is necessary, to clear the
conscience of your Majesty.

It would be very important for your Majesty to renew the mandate
forbidding the governors and auditors to trade, with heavier penalties;
for it is not observed, and from its violation there result great
inconveniences. But, as it appears that the salaries appointed by your
Majesty are not sufficient recompense for coming to such distant lands,
your Majesty might decree that when the governors were such as they
should be, and have abstained during their whole term from trade,
at the time of their departure your Majesty would permit to be given
them as large a cargo as they wish, and even an entire ship, so that
they might be made prosperous. The auditors might be given, every
six years, to each one the liberty of a cargo, so that in this way
they would have what is needed to marry their children and maintain
their households. For otherwise they are the causes of great losses;
and, as they are involved in the same misdeed, they are not urgent
in having the mandates and decrees of your Majesty complied with.

It is a great hindrance to the growth of the faith and morals
of the natives that there is a continual communication with the
infidel Chinese. Since they are coming to trade, it would be well
that when they finish selling their wares they should leave the
country; for from their remaining in these islands result many
great inconveniences. In the first place, on account of their greed,
they have taken to the cultivation of gardens and other real estate;
whence it follows that all the native Indians live idle and vicious
lives, without anyone urging them to labor. The Chinese have risen,
by buying and selling and bringing provisions to the community, to
be the retailers of supplies. From this it results that this country
is so expensive to live in that where a fowl used to be worth half
a real, or at the most one real, it is now worth four. Formerly a
ganta of rice could be obtained for a quartillo or less. Now it is
worth two reals, or at least one