conducts the religious the
money which your Highness commands to be given for their voyage, unless
he first gives good and sufficient bonds that he will return the money
in case the religious do not embark; the second is, that the convent
of San Pablo at Sevilla and that of Santo Domingo at Sanlucar, where
the religious are entertained, demand from them three reals a day,
although your Highness grants only a real and a half; the third is,
that the registry clerks are unwilling to record the grants to the
religious unless they receive three reals for each person. As a result,
since that which your Highness grants for the voyage is but little,
they put so much difficulty in the way that the religious are unable
to go on, and the commissary or vicar who conducts them is prevented,
to that extent, from fulfilling his obligations and the service of
your Highness.

He prays your Highness, in view of the service which he has done for
your Highness in the Philippinas, in Eastern Indias, and in sending
out the religious whom he, father Fray Diego Aduarte, conducted,
and in that which he is now about to undertake in his own person,
and considering how small is the allowance granted to the religious
for their voyage, that your Majesty will be pleased to make an
allowance for additional expense for himself and for the religious
whom he conducts with him; and he prays your Majesty that, in order
to relieve the difficulties referred to, you will decree that which
is most suitable to your royal service and to the prompt despatch of
the religious.

_Fray Gabriel de San Antonio_)

The Dutch Factory at Tidore

_Testimony of a Dutchman named Juan who was taken in the factory
at Tidore_

In the port of Tidore, on the sixteenth day of the month of March,
in the year one thousand six hundred and six, the captain and
sargento-mayor Christoval Asqueta Minchaca of the regiment of the
master-of-camp Joan de Esquibel, the royal commander of this fleet,
declares that the said master-of-camp, Joan de Esquibel, sent to him
in his ship a foreigner, whom he found with others in the factory
[15] at Tidore, that he might undergo examination.

The following interrogatory was put to this man: "What are the names of
this declarant and his companions? In what vessels did they come? How
many are there in Maluco and in these Eastern Yndias? In what regions
have they been, each of them, and how long in each region, and in what
vessels did t