ged every three years, and all the companies of the army will
share the work equally. It is advisable for your Majesty to order
the governors to do this, absolutely; for in this there has been
lack of system. Your Majesty should not allow portions of companies
to be sent; but whole companies should go, so that the unprotected
should not be wronged, or the privileged favored. [_In the margin_:
"Let this be marked, and also let advice of this clause be given
to the new governor. [101] Portions of companies shall not be sent
to Terrenate, but whole companies shall go there, as is here said,
so that those companies which are changed may return entire."]

Pedro de Heredia, who has been many years governor of Terrenate,
is a good soldier; but he is old and rich, and it is advisable for
your Majesty to send a successor to him. He should be one who will
be content with the honor and dignity of the post of governor.

Your Majesty has sustained here a number of galleys at a great
expense. They have been of very little or of no service. Some of
them have fallen to pieces with the lapse of time; and others have
been wrecked, not so much on account of disasters, as for the lack
of experienced officers for that navigation, as it is very different
from that of galleons. In this port there is now but one old galley;
and as I have taken a trip in it, I can assure your Majesty that it
serves for nothing else than vanity. To keep it up costs considerable,
and therefore, and because this treasury is so deeply in debt, I have
determined to prevent so excessive a cost to your Majesty. I shall
only keep up the galley of Terrenate, which is necessary and cannot be
spared; for your Majesty's revenues do not allow superfluities. And,
so long as your Majesty does not resolve upon another course, I shall
not venture upon more at present than to repair this galley, which is
old and unmanageable, in order that there may be something in which
to occupy the crew (who lie idle the whole year), until a new order
comes from your Majesty. [_In the margin_: "Have the new governor
notified, in accordance with what the last one has written, in how bad
a condition is the galley of which mention is made, the great expense
that would be required to repair it, of how little use it is; that it
can be dispensed with; and that, if there are no other reasons that
prevent, or any inconveniences, he shall do so, and, after doing it,
he shall give information of what