_ 66 _ of this letter and remain in the service of Your Highness kissing your Royal hands, beseeching of Our Lord for your life increase of your high and powerful estate, and to exalt it as you may desire. From Rodas; on the twenty ninth of March one thousand and five hundred and twelve Your humble servitor, the Chief Chancellor of Rodas Friar Amaral, Commandeur of Vera Cruz. Most Serene Senhor, whereas this affair is of such importance, in my opinion, that however much a man may study to give advices of all things relative to the intention of the infidel Soldam, there always remains something unsaid, and therefore watching all this, and bearing in mind, that all this has to be done with galleys that are destined ships following a different art of navigation from those that are accustomed to navigate these waters, and that there are needed men of great courage as boatswains. And this I know very well by experience, that although on the outside it may appear they do so, they are obstinate to treat with who does not know, and even with those who do, there is a great difference between men and men as in all other things of the world for which reason I have ventured to remind Your Highness that there is here a Catalan boatswain a young man of seven and twenty, who is one of the cleverest spirits of a man that has ever been
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