[fo. 98r.] 
 
Response / 
to the Admiral / 
 
To the Admiral, giving / 
him thanks for his work / 
in exploiting / 
the mines and that / 
he must try to have / 
as much gold extracted / 
as possible / 

 
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                         The King/ 
Don Diego Colón, our Admiral and Governor of the / 
Indies, I saw a letter that you sent me with Don / 
Fernando, your brother, and I heard everything that on your behalf / 
he mentioned to me, and in this one I do not respond to any / 
of it, except to the good news you wrote to me / 
about our mines, of which I was pleased. And since our / 
Lord gives it so that I may better serve him / 
it is very reasonable that much diligence is applied / 
in extracting as much gold as may be extracted, so that / 
on our part we do not have to report to God, / 
about what may be lost, since doing it this way I hope / 
in the name of our Lord that, since I do not want it for anything / 
else but to serve him with it, especially / 
in this war of Africa, that he will give every day / 
much more.  Therefore I charge you highly / 
to order the treasurer Miguel de / 
Pasamonte, to whom I am writing about this, so that / 
as much people as needed and as / 
may stand steady,  are placed in our mines, and if the said / 
Miguel de Pasamonte thinks that it is good / 
to send to the said mine all the slaves / 
that we have over there, because it is said that the Indians / 
find it very hard to break the rocks / 
where that gold is found, you must order how / 
they go quickly. I am also sending with this / 
courier to mandate the officials of the Casa de / 

[fo. 98v.] 

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Sevilla that immediately at the time they must give much / 
priority to searching for the fifty slaves / 
that I have ordered them to send for our mines / 
and to send them in the fastest fashion possible. / 
And since you may see how important this is to my service, / 
it seems to me unnecessary to tell you how much you will serve me / 
in helping and supporting with great care / 
and diligence everything pertaining to this business. 
Made in Valladolid on the twenty second day of January of / 
five hundred and ten years. I the King. By mandate of his highness, 
Lope Conchillos / 
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