It was not until the 26th of October, 1613, that the vessel was ready for the voyage. Viscaino complains of having had great trouble with the Japanese, and of suffering much from the constant interference of “a friar who had persuaded the Japanese to help him to further a plan he had in mind.” At the last moment, Viscaino relates, “the friar took entire command of everything, embarked as many Japanese as he wanted, and constituted himself Governor and Captain General of the vessel.” The friar was no less a personage than Friar Luis Sotelo, whose previous expedition as the shogun’s ambassador had ended so disastrously. This time he and a Japanese nobleman, named Hasekura Rokuyemon, set out as co-ambassadors for Masumane, the Lord of Oxo, with a suite of one hundred and eighty Japanese, including sixty Samurai and several merchants. They were provided with letters not only to the viceroy of Mexico, but also to the King of Spain and to Pope Paul V. Viscaino pathetically records that he protested in vain, and finally, in order to avert a great disaster, was forced “to dissimulate and to embark as a mere passenger” upon the ship he and his men had built. He adds that the humor of the Japanese was such that they actually would have killed him had he attempted to do otherwise. It would seem as though Viscaino left the vessel at the first Mexican port which was touched, for it is from Zacatula, north of Acapulco, that Viscaino dispatched, on January 22, 1614, his report to his father, Don Luis de Velasco, then living in Spain, and whom he probably soon joined. He seems to have ended his days in obscurity, for the date of his death was unknown to his Mexican biographer, Beristian. The somewhat lengthy superscription of Viscaino’s report conclusively reveals the true aim of his embassy, which he took such pains to conceal from the Japanese, but of which they were informed by William Adams and his Dutch friends. It reads as follows:-- “Account of the voyage made for the discovery of the Islands named ‘The Rich in Gold and Silver,’ situated in Japan, Don Luis de Velasco being Viceroy of New Spain, and his son, Sebastian Viscaino, the General of the Expedition.” Here ends the history of the first and last Spanish vice-regal ambassador to Japan.