20. _Letter to Acuna_, 1606.--"Cedulario Indico, t. 38, fol. 114, no. 89." The following are from the Archivo general, Simancas: 21. _Terrenate expedition_.--"Secretario de Estado, legajo 205." 22. _Trade with Mexico_.--"Secretario de Estado, leg. 2637." 23. _Passage of missionaries_.--The same as No. 22. NOTES [1] The sense is here somewhat incomplete; there may be some omission in the text. [2] _Fuerza_: injury committed by an ecclesiastical judge; see _Vol_. v, p. 292. [3] Apparently a reference to the organization of "el Nuevo Reino ['the new kingdom'] de Granada," afterward known as Nueva (or New) Granada; a name applied in the nineteenth century to the country now known as United States of Colombia. This region was conquered by Gonzalo Jiminez Quesada in 1537, its capital (established August 6, 1538) being Santa Fe de Bogota. [4] In the original there is a brief summary at the head of each paragraph, for the convenience of the council in considering the document. [5] The botanical name of the clove is _Caryophyllus aromaticus_. See Crawfurd's excellent account, both descriptive and historical, of this valued product, in his _Dict. of Indian Islands_, pp. 101-105. Cf. the account by Duarte Barbosa, in _East Africa and Malabar_ (Hakluyt Soc. publications No. 35, London, 1866), pp. 201, 219, 227; he says, among other things: "And the trees from which they do not gather it for three years after that become wild, so that their cloves are worth nothing." Crawfurd says: "It is only in its native localities, the five small islets [Moluccas] on the western coast of the large island of Gilolo, that it is easily grown, and attains the highest perfection. There, it bears in its seventh or eighth year, and lives to the age of 130 or 150." He also states that the Dutch, in their attempt to secure the monopoly of the clove trade, exterminated the clove trees from the Moluccas, and endeavored to limit their growth to the five Amboyna islands, in which they had introduced the clove. [6] Referring to the military order of St. John of Jerusalem, to which Acuna belonged. [7] The Spanish form of the name of Mechlin, an important city of Belgium, between Antwerp and Brussels. The reference in the text is probably to some law enacted by the emperor Charles V while holding his court at Mechlin, during his long stay in the Netherlands.