charge of it; and for this I grant you authority.  It is my will that, in case of your death while on the expedition, or through any other cause, or the death of the person whom you may appoint for it, Admiral Juan de Esquivel succeed in it and continue it.  All the sea and land forces who shall take part in the said expedition, shall obey him as they would yourself.  I declare that, in this event, and in case of your death, and the succession of the said Juan de Esquivel to the charge of the expedition, he shall be subject and subordinate to my royal Audiencia in those islands.  The captains in whose charge is the infantry raised in these kingdoms, I have selected as worthy men who have served.  Accordingly I charge and order you chat you honor and favor them as far as possible, for in that I shall consider myself served.  You shall not dismiss them or deprive them of their companies to give these to others, without just cause, unless it be to appoint them to better offices.  However, if they should commit crimes you may punish them, as their superior.  It is supposed that by the time of the arrival of these soldiers at those islands—­and they shall leave Nueva Espana in the first vessels, after the arrival of the trading fleet there—­you will have matters so well in hand that you may begin the expedition immediately.  I charge you straitly to do with circumspectness, consideration, and caution what I expect from so gallant a soldier.  These men are to be well disciplined and drilled, and everything so ordered that the desired and so important effect may be gained, for you see the risk in this and its expense.  You shall endeavor, as I charge you, to have the advisable care and order taken in the efficient distribution and collection of my revenues, and the avoidance of superfluous expense.  Of the course of events you shall keep me advised on all occasions.  After recovering the fort of Ternate, you shall place there and on the island the garrison necessary for its safety.  I have ordered the viceroy of Nueva Espana, if he has any opportunity for it, to advise you as soon as the men raised here arrive there [i.e., in Nueva Espana], and that he report clearly to you the contingent enlisted in that country, and that will be raised in any other way, as well as the time that they will leave there, so that you may take the necessary precautions concerning them from those islands.  If you consider it advisable for these men to stop anywhere and not to go to Manila, you shall so order it, or give any other orders that you deem most advisable, in anything.  Valladolid.  June twenty, one thousand six hundred and four.