captain’s daughter had been preserved.”  Then Neceda, transported with fury, thought to throw Xavier and his companions overboard.  But the storm ceasing in an instant, his mind grew calmer by degrees, he weighed anchor, and set sail again, and took the way of Canton, with intention there to pass the winter.  But the designs of men, and power of devils, can do nothing against the decrees of Providence.  A contrary wind broke all the projects of the captain, constraining him, in his own despite, to enter with full sails into the ocean of Japan.  And the same wind carried the junk of the pirate toward Cangoxima, the birth-place of Anger, sirnamed Paul de Sainte Foy.  They arrived there on the fifteenth of August, in the year 1549.

THE LIFE OF ST FRANCIS XAVIER.

BOOK V.

The situation of Japan, and the nature of the country.  The estate of the government of Japan.  The religion of the Japonese when the Father arrived in that country.  The six jesuits who were sent to Siam in 1685, in their relation of the religion of the Siamois, which much resembles this of Japan, guess, with more probability, that these opinions were the corruptions of the doctrine preached in the Indies by St Thomas.  Paul de Sainte Foy goes to wait on the king of Saxuma.  That which passed at the court of Saxuma.  The saint applies himself to the study of the Japonian tongue.  He baptizes the whole family of Paul de Sainte Foy.  He goes to the court of Saxuma, and is well received.  He begins to preach at Cangorima, and converts many.  He visits the Bonzas, and endeavours to gain them.  He proves the soul’s immortality to the chief of the Bonzas.  The Bonzas rise against him.  The Bonzas succeed not in their undertaking.  He leads a most austere life.  He works divers miracles.  He raises a maid from death.  God avenges the saint.  A new persecution raised against Xavier by the Bonzas.  The king of Saxuma is turned against Xavier and the Christians.  The saint fortifies the Christians before he leaves them.  He causes his catechism to be printed before his departure.  He departs from Cangoxima.  He goes to the castle of Ekandono.  He declares the gospel before Ekandono, and the fruits of his preaching.  What he does for the preservation of the faith in the new Christians of the castle.  Thoughts of a Christian of Ekandono.  He leaves a disciple with the steward of Ekandono, and the use he makes of it.  He leaves a little book with the wife of Ekandono, and for what it served.  He arrives at Firando; and what reception he had there.  He preaches at Firando with great success.  He takes Amanguchi in his way to Meaco.  He stays at Amanguchi; his actions there.  What hindered the fruit of his preaching at Amanguchi.  He appears before the king of Amanguchi, and expounds to him the doctrine of Christianity.  He preaches before the king in Amanguchi without success.  He pursues