ready a ship in Santander with the
said aid, arms, and ammunition, and to entrust it to the said
Joan de la Ysla. The preparations were carried out by Joan de
Penalosa, administrator of the marine tithes, to whom the affair was
entrusted. The ship set sail with good weather August 27, 1569. The
ship, its repairing, and the goods it carried cost four million
eight hundred and seventeen thousand eight hundred and seventy-six
and one-half _maravedis_, as is evident by the memorandum of Joan de
Penalosa for the said day.

The ship reached Nueva Spana on the last of October, 1569. On March
9, 70, it left the port of Acapulco with two hundred men including
sailors, soldiers, workmen, and married men. Joan de la Ysla says
that the officials of Nueva Spana wasted one hundred and twenty-six
thousand _pesos_ on his expedition, and as much while he remained
there. He reached the islands at the end of May, and cast anchor in
the island of Marapite. Thence he sent despatches to the governor and
awaited his orders. On the arrival of the orders he set sail, June 20,
and reached Panae, where the governor was, on the twenty-third of June.

On July 27, he left Panae for Nueva Spana, with two of the three
ships which the other had brought, and reached the port of Acapulco in
Nueva Espana, November 21, 1570. January 25, 1571, he left Sant Juan
de Lua, and reached Sant Lucas April 17, 1571. Through an advice-ship
sent by the viceroy, Juan de la Ysla was requested to set sail with
the two ships, not later than the month of February. The time to set
out from Nueva Spana is from the beginning of November to the latter
part of January; the voyage will last two months. The time to set out
for Nueva Espana is from the end of July to the beginning of August;
the voyage will last three months.

Requisitions of Supplies for the Spanish Forces in the
Philippines--1570-71 (_circa_)

Memorandum of the articles asked for by the governor of the Felipinas
islands--with a note of what can be supplied from Nueva Espana, and
what must be brought from Espana. This memorandum was brought last
year by the advice ships. [37]

First, he asks for rigging. We must buy some of that brought by the
merchant fleet; for none was sent here from Espana on his Majesty's
account. A supply must be sent, for it is very expensive here.

(Six hundred and forty-five _arrobas_ and fourteen _libras_ of small
rigging were taken.)

They ask also for pitch. It will b