which the king of Bungo does to Xavier.  The Bonzas present a writing to the king, but without effect.  They wrangle about the signification of words.  They dispute in the nature of school-divines.  He answers the objections of the Bonzas, and their replies.  The fruit of his disputation with the Bonzas.  He leaves Japan, and returns to the Indies.  God reveals to him the siege of Malacca.  What happens to him in his return from Japan to the Indies.  How Xavier behaves himself during the tempest.  What happens to the chalop belonging to the ship.  He expects the return of the chalop, or cockboat, notwithstanding all appearances to the contrary.  He renews his prayers for the return of the chalop.  He prays once more for the return of the chalop.  The chalop appears, and comes up with the ship.  He arrives at the isle of Sancian; and goes off after a little time.  His prediction to the pilot.  A marvellous effect of the saint’s prophecy.  He forms the design of carrying the faith to China.  He takes his measures with Pereyra, for the voyage of China.  He dissipates a tempest; his prophecy concerning the ship of James Pereyra.  His reception at Malacca.  The history of the ship called Santa Cruz.  He arrives at Cochin; and finishes the conversion of the king of the Maldivias.  He writes into Europe, and comes to Goa.  He cures a dying man immediately upon his arrival.  He hears joyful news of the progress of Christianity in the Indies.  The conversion of the king of Tanor.  The conversion of the king of Trichenamalo.  The letter from the bishop of the Indies to Father Ignatius.  He hears other comfortable news.  He is afflicted with the misdemeanors of Father Antonio Gomez.  How Gomez attacks the authority of Paul de Camerine.  The extravagances of Gomez in matters of religion.  The violence and injustice of Gomez.  Xavier repairs the faults committed by Gomez.  He expels Gomez from the Society.

I undertake not to make an exact description of Japan, after those which have been made of it by geographers and travellers:  by an ordinary view of the charts, and common reading of the relations of the Indies, it is easy to understand, that Japan is situate at the extremity of Asia, over against China; that it is a concourse of islands which compose as it were one body, and that the chiefest of them gives the name to all the rest; that this world of islands, as it is called by a great geographer, is filled with mountains, some of which are inaccessible, and almost above the clouds; that the colds there are excessive, and that the soil, which is fruitful in mines of gold and silver, is not productive of much grain of any sort necessary to life, for want of cultivation.  Without dwelling longer either on the situation or nature of the country, or so much as on the customs and manners of the inhabitants, of which I have already said somewhat, and shall speak yet farther, as my subject requires it, I shall here only touch a little on the government and religion, which of necessity are to be known at the beginning, for the understanding of the history which I write.