Certain slaves are brought to these islands from Yndia and the settlement at Macan; as your Majesty has given no orders as to the collection of duty on them from those who bring them hither--as is paid on those from Santo Domingo and other places to Nueva Espana and Piru--your royal officials have not collected on them, or on those slaves who are carried from these islands to Nueva Espana.

We ask your Majesty to order as suits your pleasure in the regulation of this matter.
Section 13.

Your viceroy in Yndia has, by severe restrictions and heavy penalties, closed the door to the intercourse and commerce maintained with these islands by the Portuguese; he has ordered that we should not resort to Yndia, nor should the Portuguese come hither.

As the route to Macan and the coast of China has been opened, he says that the natives of that country are offended, and might destroy Macan through fear.

Nevertheless, we understand that this course has been pursued on account of the little love that the Portuguese feel for us; and because they think that the Castilians will injure their commerce and trade and raise the price of commodities in that land.