The licentiate Herver del Corral, visitor
        of the royal Audiencia of Manila, eighteen
        bales and one box. xviii i

        The schoolmaster of the Manila cathedral,
        six bales. vi

        Father Cervantes, ecclesiastic, three bales
        and six boxes. iii vi

        The beneficiary Juan Gutierrez, two boxes. ii

        Father Rodrigo de Morales, ecclesiastic,
        three bales. iii

        Father Crisanto de Tamayo, ecclesiastic,
        two bales. ii

        Benito Gutierrez, ecclesiastic, two bales. ii

And in order that this might be evident, I give the present, signed with my name and the usual flourishes.  Given in Manila, June four, one thousand five hundred and ninety-one.

Juan de Cuellar, notary of registers.

Sire: 

In another letter I have informed your Majesty of my fears of Japanese enemies.  After that letter and packet were closed, and the ships about to leave, it happened that the ambassadors of whom we had advices came here in a ship that made port on the twenty-ninth of May, On the thirty-first, they delivered to me the letter from that king, enclosed in a box of wood one and one-half varas in length and painted white.  Inside this was another box of the same proportions, excellently painted, varnished, and polished in black, with some medium-sized gilded iron rings and some large cords of red silk.  Within this box was another one painted in various colors—­yellow and gold—­with its large iron rings and cords of white and violet silk, both covered with damask.  In this third box, wrapped in a stout, wide paper, painted and gilded, was the letter, written with Chinese characters in the Japanese language, on stout paper, illumined and gilded with great neatness.  The letter is even larger than the sealed bulls from Rroma, on parchment, and is sealed with two painted seals stamped in red.  I am not sending the originals, because you have no one who can translate them there; while they will be needed here, perchance, for what must be done to affirm the embassy, and even for objects and matters of importance that we might be able to discuss, by virtue of these letters, with the king of China.  Therefore I enclose only one copy of the letter, in accordance with the best and most exact translation that could be made here; and another copy made for me by the emperor himself, by means of an interpreter.  Although these two copies differ somewhat, they agree in their essential point, namely, the demand for recognition and obedience, made with the arrogance and barbaric haughtiness that your Majesty will find in them.  They also brought, resting in small boxes, a letter from the king’s chamberlain (one of the grandees of that kingdom), another from their captain-general and another from the king of Firando; and at other times letters have been written