Note 1 — Letter from Felipe IV to Fajardo

Since you were unable to attend to the mines of the province of Pangasinan, in the mountains and the [258] lands of the Ygolotes, on account of the press of business which you have had, you will now carry on their exploration, since you see that it is desirable to accomplish this enterprise.1 As for the efforts that you have made to discover certain fruits of the land, and your assertion that a considerable quantity of nutmeg2 has been discovered similar to that from the Malucas Islands, you will make the necessary investigations to ascertain this accurately. I also charge [259] you to continue what you have begun, and to send a quantity of the said nutmeg to the officers of my royal exchequer in the City of Mexico in Nueva España, so that they may send it to these kingdoms; and there also shall the investigation be made, according to the orders sent in my decree.