found in the lands discovered must be treated well, in order to gain information from them.  “If by any chance you should meet ships from Portugal within our limits, bid them quietly to leave the land, because in their own requirements given by our very dear and well-loved uncle and brother, it is forbidden to them to enter or discover in the lands and limits belonging to us, and the same is forbidden to you by us.”  The cargoes must be given up by such ships, if not peaceably, then by means of force, provided “you can seize it without much loss to yourself.”  A list is appended of the amount of freight that each one may take in the vessels.  A copy of these instructions is to be given to Juan de Cartagena, the inspector-general.  This document was copied from his books by the secretary Joan de Samano in 1524. (No. xiv, pp. 130-152.)

Seville, 1519.  The officials of the house of trade show to Magalhaes an order from the King (dated at Barcelona, July 26, 1519), “by which his Highness orders that the commander Rui Falero remain behind and not go as captain jointly with him in the fleet which his Highness orders to be prepared for the spice regions; and also that the said official judges name and appoint the stewards sailing in the said fleet, and as secretaries of the ships of the said fleet shall go those appointed by the said commander [Magalhaes] if they are natives [of his kingdom].”  Juan de Cartagena is appointed in Ruy Falero’s place as conjunta persona, and Francisco, brother of Ruy, is appointed captain of one of the ships.  Magalhaes says in his communication to the officials of the House of Trade that he consents to Falero remaining behind, provided the latter surrender to them and to him the “elevations of east and west longitude, with all the rules accompanying them, that they may remain in the said house and be kept in the said fleet.”  He justifies, the first appointment of two Portuguese stewards, both of whom he declares to be good and faithful men.  “If they should prove unfaithful then they shall be removed.”  As for his Highness ordering that “no Portuguese seamen sail in the fleet,” these men had been accepted by the masters of the said ships, and Magalhaes “received them as he did many other foreigners,—­namely, Venetians, Greeks, Bretons, French, German, and Genovese,—­because, at the time he took them, natives of these kingdoms were lacking.”  He signifies his willingness to accept others in place of the Portuguese, provided they make no extra expense.  In regard to the order not to ship Portuguese, if such a cause could be shown in the contract that he and Falero made with the King at Barcelona he would keep it; but otherwise he “would keep only the contract and instructions given to him in Barcelona.”  He would not observe anything contrary to this contract, even if ordered by the King and Council.  That the King wishes no change in the instructions is evident, because Juan de Cartagena has been ordered not to make any innovation.