of this government to damage them.  What I wrote last year to the king of Japon was of considerable aid in that understanding, and that king made it known in Japon.  The city of Macan lately begged me to write new letters to Japon, and I have done it very willingly, with the advice of the Audiencia and other experienced persons.  Our Lord grant that it will have a good result.”  See Pastells’s Colin, i, p. 242.  The original of this letter rests in the Sevilla archives; its pressmark, “est. 67, caj. 6, leg. 8.”