ABSTRACT

To inform Your Majesty of the misery and distress in which this city of Santo Domingo, key and commencement of the conquest of the Indies, has been left, by this ship we write Your Majesty this brief and summary relation, since the president and judges of the Audiencia will doubtless report at greater length, describing events. By an advice-boat which will sail from here very shortly we will send a person especially by word of mouth to lay our miserable condition before Your Majesty and to pray for the remedy for so much damage.