destroy. Consequently, it is not at all advisable that your
religion be promulgated or preached in Japon; and if your
Lordship wish to preserve friendship with these kingdoms
of Japon and with me, do what I wish, and never do what is
displeasing to me. Lastly, many have told me that many wicked
and perverse Japanese, who go to that kingdom and live there
for many years, afterward return to Japon. This makes me
very angry. Consequently, your Lordship will, in the future,
allow no one of the Japanese to come here in the vessels that
come from your country. In other matters, your Lordship shall
act advisedly and prudently, and shall so conduct affairs,
that henceforth I may not be angered on account of them.

The governor, carrying out his dearest wish, was to make the
expedition to Terrenate in the Malucos, which should be done quickly,
before the enemy could gather more strength than he had then; for
he had been informed that the Dutch, who had seized the island
and fortress of Amboino, had done the same with that of Tidore,
whence they had driven the Portuguese who had settled therein, and
had entered Terrenate, where they had established a trading-post for
the clove-trade. Accordingly, as soon as the despatches in regard to
this undertaking arrived from España, in June of six hundred and five,
and the men and supplies from Nueva España, which were brought at the
same time by the master-of-camp, Joan de Esquivel, the governor spent
the balance of this year in preparing the ships, men, and provisions
that he deemed necessary for the undertaking. Leaving behind in
Manila sufficient force for its defense, he went to the provinces of
Pintados, where the fleet was collected, in the beginning of the year
six hundred and six.