be bought there for one hundred.  And, as above stated, there are many other articles besides those I have mentioned—­such as flour for the hosts, which in the islands costs less per quintal than does the freight alone for carrying it from the port of Capulco.  He sends for preserves for the sick, who never taste them.  All the above can be very well avoided, and it is enough to send money, and to order that these articles be provided there.  Your Majesty would have saved in these last eight years more than five hundred thousand ducados; for those who have the handling of most of those things profit greatly from them.

29 [sic]. Item:  Inasmuch as some religious commit great excesses in making repartimientos among the Indians for works that they invent for the natives; and also take from them their fowls, swine, and other food at a less price and inflict on the Indians great injuries and vexations, not only in regard to food, but also to increase their own profits: 

He petitions your Majesty to order your governor, as protector [of the Indians], to check those excesses—­and the archbishop as well, since he may have in this respect a better opportunity to check them; for some of the religious cause more injury to the natives than could be told here.  It is extremely important that this evil be stopped, and that the religious be not served by the Indians, unless they pay the latter their just wage; and that, unless they have permission from your governor, they shall not make repartimientos on the Indians, nor make them serve on their works. [94]

30. Item:  That there are four orders of religious in those islands—­those of St. Dominic, St Francis, and St. Augustine, and the Society of Jesus—­and they are well known there.  On account of the trouble caused by other orders going there, and the necessity of having to make new allotments for mission work, he petitions your Majesty that no other orders may go there—­even though they be the same orders in name, under pretext that they are of another mode of living; for Fray Luis Sotelo endeavored to introduce there the calced friars in the Order of St. Francis, while the people are well contented with the discalced friars.  And the other orders should be made to understand that the land is very new, and does not need so many different kinds of religious. [95]

31. Item:  Many Chinese marry native Indian women, and become Christians and live near the city of Manila.  Their only occupation is as retailers of goods.  If they were to be gathered into one place, in a location that should be given them where they could build a town, in order to cultivate the land and sow it (for they are excellent farmers, and there is so much fallow land that might be given them), not only would they be very useful to the community, but numerous troubles that follow, because they are hucksters and retail the food, would be avoided.  This is especially desirable because in this manner they will become more domestic and peaceable; and, since the number of those born is thus increasing, the city will not have so much security as if they were collected together, nor can this be done hereafter so easily as now.  He petitions your Majesty to charge your governor to do this, by the best plan that offers.