[26] Apparently meaning that he came with Governor Fajardo in 1618; for the present narrative must have been written as early as 1624.

[27] That is, “the spirit of the Lord came rushing.”

[28] The only Jeronimo Rodrigues, and who was probably the one in our text, mentioned by Sommervogel was the Portuguese born at Villa de Monforte.  He went to the Indias in 1566, and became visitor of the provinces of China and Japan.  He died while rector of Macan.  He left several letters and treatises, some of which have been printed.  See Sommervogel’s Bibliotheque.

[29] The old capital of Siam was Ayuthia (also written, in early documents, Yuthia and Odia).  It was founded in the year 1350, and was built on an island in the river Meinam—­the proper name of which, according to M.L.  Cort’s Siam (New York, 1886), p. 20, is Chow Payah, the name Meinam (meaning “mother of waters”) being applied to many rivers—­seventy-eight miles from the sea.  Ayuthia was captured and ruined by the Burmese in 1766, and later the capital was removed to Bangkok (founded in 1769), which lies on the same river, twenty-four miles from the sea.  Crawfurd, writing in the middle of the nineteenth century, gives the estimated population of Ayuthia at 40,000, and that of Bangkok at 404,000—­the latter probably much too large.  See his Dict.  Indian Islands, article, “Siam.”

[30] Pedro de Morejon was born in 1562, at Medina del Campo.  He entered his novitiate in 1577, and set out for the Indias in 1586, and spent more than fifty years in the missions of the Indias and Japan.  His associates were Jacques Chisai and Juan de Goto, who were martyred.  In 1620 he was sent to Rome as procurator of Japan, became rector of the college of Meaco in 1633, and died shortly after.  San Antonio (Chronicas, iii, pp. 534, 535) gives a letter written by him to the Franciscan religious martyred in Japan in 1596 while on the road to execution; and he was the author of several relations concerning Christianity in Japan.  See Sommervogel’s Bibliotheque.

[31] Antonio Francisco Cardim was born at Viana d’Alentejo, near Evora, in 1596, and entered his novitiate February 24, 1611.  He went to the Indias in 1618, where he visited Japan, China, the kingdom of Siam, Cochinchina, and Tonquin.  He died at Macao, April 30, 1659.  He left a number of writings concerning his order and their work in the Orient.  See Sommervogel’s Bibliotheque.

[32] The name Manados (now Menado) was applied to a province (now called Minahasa) in the northernmost peninsula of Celebes; see Colin’s description of it in his Labor evangelica (ed. 1663), pp. 109, 110.  Jesuit missions were early established there (Colin, ut supra, p. 820), from the island of Siao.

[33] There is apparently some defect in the text at this place, as if the royal comment or decision on Tavora’s request had been omitted.