The artillery which they all carry are eighty guns, of a very small size; only in the largest ship, in which Magellan is going, there are four very good iron cannon. All the crews whom they take in all the five vessels are two hundred and thirty men. The greater number have already received their pay; only the Portuguese, who will not accept a thousand reis, and who are waiting for the courier to arrive, because Magellan told them that he would get their pay increased, and they carry provisions for two years. The captain of the first ship is Fernan Magellan, and of the second, Ruy Faleiro; of the third, Juan de Cartagena, who is the chief factor of the fleet; of the fourth, Quesada, a dependant of the Archbishop of Seville; the fifth goes without any known captain, —— Carvalho, a Portuguese, goes in her as pilot. Here it is said that, as soon as they are out of the mouth of the river, he will put into her, as captain, Alvaro da Mesquita of Estremoz, who is here. The Portuguese who have come here to sail are, —— Carvalho, pilot. Estevan Gomez, pilot. —— Serrāo, pilot. Vasco Galego, pilot; he has been living here for some time. Alvaro de Mesquita of Estremoz. Martin da Mesquita of Estremoz. Francisco d’Afonseca, son of the Corregidor of Rosmaninhal. Christopher Ferreira, son of the Corregidor of Castelejo. Martin Gil, son of the Judge for the Orphans of Lisbon. Pero d’Abreu, a dependent of the Bishop of Zafy. Duarte Barbosa, nephew of Diogo Barbosa, a dependent of the Bishop of Siguenza. Antonio Fernandez, who lived in the Moorish quarter of Lisbon. Luis Affonso of Beja, who was a dependent of the Lady Infanta, whom may God have in His keeping. Juan da Silva, son of Nuno da Silva, of the island of Madeira. This man has always told me that he would not go unless, if your Highness held it to be for your service, and he behaves as a concealed friend. Faleiro has got here his father and mother, and brothers, one of whom he takes with him. Other small people of the servants of these also say that they are going, of which I will make a report to your Highness, if you command it, when they go. The fifth part of this armament is from Cristoval de Haro, who has spent on it four thousand ducats. They say here that your Highness had ordered to take from him there [in Portugal] twenty thousand cruzados of property. He gives here information about the fleets of your Highness, both of what is done, and of what is to be done. I learned that by a servant of his whom he has got there; by obtaining from him the letters, your Highness might be able to know by what means he learns these secrets. The goods which they take are copper, quicksilver, common cloths of colours, common coloured silks, and jackets made of these silks.