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The San Carlos and other Spanish banks and individuals joined in, and shares were reserved for the Manila merchants. Three months after the charter was granted the company had 1,291 members. The first president was Jose de Gálvez, then minister of the Indies, with Cabarrús as a director. After Gálvez died in 1787 Antonio Valdés was appointed to succeed him. The Philippine Company was given a monopoly on the trade between Manila and Spain, but its mission was to foster agriculture in the Philippines, particularly the growth of sugar and spices, and to halt the drain of silver by developing Manila as a contributor 26 Alejandro Malaspina to the Spanish treasury.
The letter to Viceroy Francisco Gil had no complimentary opening. It read in part: Ship Lieutenant Don Cayetano Valdés will present to Your Excellency with this memorandum an order of His Majesty by which he is permitted to abstract from the Civil Archives all the documents relevant to the commission of the corvettes Descubierta and Atrevida ... This Royal Order will manifest to Your Excellency better than all the reasons that I could put forward, it being the will of His Majesty to combine in the narrative of the voyage whatever can contribute to national knowledge, that we need ...
None of the voyages described in Landín went there. There is some speculation that Magellan either saw or intended to search for them, and they were one of the destinations of a proposed voyage by Hernán Cortes, according to the Portuguese Antonio Galvão, writing circa 1544. 5 Transliterations of Pacific languages often use either "r" or "1," according to the ear of the listener. It is possible that the name Lequio is an attempt to record what is now transliterated as Ryukyu. "Liu-Kiu" is fairly close.