12.  The island of Luzon, whereon is located the city of Manila, is the best and most thickly populated, most abundant in food and richest in gold mines.  It is three hundred leguas in circumference, and is all apportioned among encomenderos.  The villages in the chief places of the provinces belong to your Highness’s royal crown.  In this and other parts, your Highness has thirty thousand tributarios or thereabout.  Although they all pay tribute in the villages under charge of encomenderos, many of them have no instruction; and they have paid, and there has been collected from them, tribute for more than sixteen years.  That this may be quite evident to your Majesty, he says that, in the province of Camarines, located eighty leguas from the city of Manila in the said island, in the vicinity of the volcano of Albay, are four encomenderos, who collect more than three thousand tributes, and there are no ministers of the gospel.  This means twelve thousand souls to be converted, for not one of them is a Christian, for the reason given above.  For their conversion, six ministers will be necessary.

13.  Further in the above province are four other encomenderos, who collect tribute from the island of Capul (which lies four leguas away), and from the bay of Ybalon.  They collect almost three thousand tributes, and they likewise have no minister of the gospel.  There are some two [19] thousand souls, and they will need six ministers for their conversion.

14.  In the above province is an islet of about two or three leguas in circuit.  It is apportioned to two encomenderos, who collect one thousand two hundred tributes.  This means four thousand souls, and will require two ministers.

15. Item:  In the said province, near the volcano of Albay, is a village called Yguey, with seven hundred Indian tributarios, and not one a Christian, for lack of ministers.  It belongs to one encomendero.  There are about three thousand souls, more or less, who need two ministers of the gospel for their conversion.

16.  In the same island of Luzon, toward the north, in the province of Cagayan, are some allotted Indians, who, although they pay tribute, are not baptized for lack of ministers.  Their encomenderos are twelve in number, and the Indians in their encomiendas, ten thousand four hundred, or more than forty thousand souls.  In proportion to the others, they will need twenty ministers for their conversion.

17.  In the same island of Luzon, in the provinces of Ylocos and Pangasinan are twelve encomenderos, with sixteen thousand Indians paying tribute, which means about seventy thousand souls.  Very few of these, not eight thousand, are baptized.  They need thirty ministers for their conversion and instruction.