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l For _sallotes_ ropes which are necessary, four pieces of one hundred and fifty _brazas_ each, to weigh three _quintals_ apiece, xii _quintals_ Four hawsers of one hundred _brazas_ each, to weigh four _quintals_ apiece, xvi Two workmen, oar makers, to make oars from the wood hereabout, ii Two hundred pulleys; with both eyes and sheaves, cc One hundred _quintals_ of grease, c Two hundred sheep-skins with the wool on, cc All this cordage to be _agave_ and hemp. Also two anvils of two _arrobas_ each, ii Also two small ones from six to seven pounds, ii One anvil, i Two screws for filing, ii A half-dozen boys for ironworking, vi Three or four bellows-pipes for forges, iiii One hundred heavy coats of mail, c The powder and fuse which have been asked for, Likewise three or four pairs more of bellows are asked for, iiii Twelve more negroes, xii Two hundred more iron axes shod in Mexico, cc Two hundred mattocks, cc One hundred more pieces of Tequantepeque [Tehuantepec] and Venetian canvas, c One pair of large fishing-nets which may come in the hogsheads mentioned above, ii Ear-rings, glassware, and fine coral, The coins and bars of silver, just as they have been asked for, The caldrons of pitch, because those that were made in Mexico were worthless, One dozen caldrons with three compartments, xii Four syringes, and the cupping glasses and the lancets which are likewise ordered, Sail-needles with large eyes, Workmen who understand how to build vessels, Six cables for the flagship, of fourteen or sixteen _quintals_ each The steel that is asked for. [Certain shapes and s
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