Note 3 — Letters from Pedro de Acuña to Felipe III
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In two ships which left here for Nueba Hespaña last year, 1604, General, Don Diego de Mendoca, of my order,3 wrote to your Majesty in duplicate, giving information of all the events which had happened here. It pleased God that the flagship should return to port, after having suffered from a tempest during which it was obliged to cut off the mainmast. It returned to this port today, four months after it had left it, although without any loss of the property which it carried, [Marginal note: “Let him be informed that this letter has been received and that the council has been advised of what he reports.”]