[45] Spanish, _seis mil aremilas_. _Mil_ is an obvious error, probably typographical; and _aremilas_ is apparently a misprint for _acémilas_, "mules." [46] _Comitre_: an officer in the galleys of that epoch, who had charge of the working of the ship, and the punishment of the rowers and convicts. See _Doc. inéd. Amér. y Oceania_, vi, p. 421, note 1. [47] This word is omitted in the manuscript. [48] This word is lacking in the manuscript. [49] Cf. financial statements of the Philippine colonial government found in Vols. VI, pp. 47-49: XIV, pp. 243-269; XVI, pp. 188-193; XIX, pp. 248-250, 292-297. [50] The manuscript is much confused at this point, reading _y assi el Real_ instead of _y assi al Perù_--the idea of the copyist evidently being "Accordingly the royal [Council] concedes one ship annually to Nueva España," etc., which does not make sense with what follows. [51] Annuity assigned upon the revenue of the crown. [52] Grau y Monfalcón leaves out of account the expeditions of Loaisa and Villalobos. [53] This word is lacking in the manuscript. [54] Spanish, _angeos_; _i.e._, Anjou linen, because it was obtained from that duchy; a coarse, heavy cloth of the poorer quality of flax. The linen of Rouen was fine. [55] These words, _lo mas_, are omitted in the manuscript. [56] See Cíeza de Leon's account of the mines of Potosi, in his _Chronicle of Peru_ (Markham's translation, Hakluyt Society's publications, London, 1864), pp. 386-392. He says that he himself saw (1549) the amount of the royal fifths, 25,000 to 40,000 pesos each week; and that these for the years 1548-51 amounted to more than 3,000,000 ducados. Cf. Acosta's description, in his _History of the Indies_ (Hakluyt Society's publications, London, 1880), i, pp. 197-209; he reckons the fifths as 1,500,000 pesos (of 13 1/4 reals each) yearly. Both writers state that much of the silver was never reported to the royal officials. Humboldt makes the statement (_New Spain_, Black's translation, iii, p. 372) regarding the yield of Potosi from 1624 to 1634, that it was 5,232,425 piastres (or pesos; of eight reals each)--as translated, "average years," which presumably is intended for "yearly average." [57] See Vol. XV, p. 293. [58] Here occurs, in the manuscript, a later sentence copied in the wrong place. [59] This word is omitted in the manuscript. [60] _Trama_: a kind of weaving silk. [61] _Sinabafa_: material of the natural color, _i.e._, unbleached. [62] Evidently meaning the silk produced in Misteca (Miztecapan), a province of Nueva España, now part of the state of Oajaca. This industry appears to have been introduced there in consequence of a suggestion by the viceroy Montesclaros in 1612 (see Vol. XVII, p. 219). [63] Apparently meaning that as linen must then be imported into Spain, to make good this deficiency, an extension of their market for this commodity would thus be secured by the French and Dutch, its chief manufacturers.