purpose, in addition to the many acts of injustice which have already been committed here in this land of the king our lord, greatly to his displeasure—­and, as I believe, that of his Majesty, which is the same thing.  On my complaining several times to his Grace, during the continuance of peace, and when I had so great a desire of serving him—­as even now I feel no hesitation in doing—­in regard to his erection within the aforesaid camp of many breastworks and fortifications, he replied, by letter, that it was the custom of camps and soldiers always to be thus throwing up fortifications.  Nevertheless, he was erecting those defenses, not in his Majesty’s demarcation, but thirty leagues within that of his Highness, and against one of his captains—­one, too, who is so peaceably inclined as I have always been, until the moment when war was waged against me, and a considerable time after that, for which reason I am surprised at his acts.  I then ordered the galleys to the other entrance of this harbor—­the justest and most Christian means of acting, for it was my intention not to starve him to death, but to oblige him to cease from this injury to his Highness, and accept shelter in this fleet and make up for past privation.  For what Friar Quapucho [i.e., fustian-clad] is so humble, so long-suffering, and so charitable to any one as I have been to a person who has not deserved it from his king and lord?  The more ships that come to me to join this fleet, the better service will his Grace and company be able to enjoy therein, and they will experience much friendship and satisfaction therein—­thus performing great service to God and to the kings, to whom we are all so closely bound, and for whom we ought to endure and surfer hardships with exceeding joy.  And this the more, because his Grace neither possesses nor gives any just reason for being excused from so virtuous a work (in which he will always take personal part in company with me who follow and accompany him), or for being unwilling to concede what I have requested so many times, and now request again, much more earnestly, on behalf of God, of his Majesty, and of the king our lord.  All that has happened or which may subsequently happen, therefore, I declare shall fall to his own responsibility; and I protest, by the protestations already made, and by all which may redound to the justice and right of the king our lord, and of the subsequent heirs of the kingdoms of Portugal.  And you, Pero Bernaldez, notary-public of this fleet, are directed to make the same known to him, and give and deliver to me such instrument or instruments as shall be required by me.  In this galley “San Francisco,” on the second day of the month of November, in the year one thousand five hundred and sixty-eight.

Goncallo Pereira