_ 75 _ Juan Camacho, the son of Lorenzo Camacho of Palos, and the other one Miguel Nobre. The latter was ransomed by the people of Camafo, which is a Moorish city owing obedience to the King of Tidore, who sent word to me that the Spaniard was there and if I sent for him, he would send him to me, and this was done. This cost me two hundred cruzados, and they were well spent as what we heard prevented misfortunes, and we learned from him all that was intended, namely that the Marques del Vale ordered two ships to be built, one of a hundred and twenty tons, called “Santiago”, and the other of eighty or ninety tons. When these ships were completed and fitted out, they took on provisions and lead ballast and in the first week of Easter they left the port of Acapulco for Peru by order of the marquis and reached a city they called Manta and from there to Tumbes and Paita, which is the port of the city of San Miguel, where the Castilians have a settlement. There they unloaded and sent a message to Hernando Pizarro, the governor of Peru, who was in the city of Jauja, and waited there until a reply came. He sent a man in gold and a woman in silver, and then they sailed towards the Moluccas along the line. The first landfall they made, according to his information, was the island of [Versail,
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