fe, than to accept the offer they had made him.

Alvarez Vaz, who had most importuned him to take this voyage, and who had
many times offered to bring him to Father Xavier, had not yet finished
all his business, when this Japonese came to take sanctuary in his ship.
He therefore gave him letters of recommendation to another Portuguese,
called Ferdinand Alvarez, who was at another port of Japan, and who was
suddenly to set sail for Malacca.

Anger departed by night, attended by two servants. Being arrived at the
port, and enquiring for Ferdinand Alvarez, he lighted accidentally on
George Alvarez, who was just ready to weigh anchor. This George was a
wealthy merchant, a man of probity, and who had an extreme affection for
the Father. He received the letters of Alvarez as if they had been
addressed to himself, took the three Japonians into his ship, entertained
them with all kindness, and brought them to Malacca; taking great
satisfaction in the good office he should do in presenting them to the
man of God, who might, perhaps, make them the first Christians of their
country. But the misfortune was, that they missed the Father, who was
just gone for the Moluccas. Anger, more disquieted in a foreign land
than he had been at home, and despairing of ever seeing him, whom he had
so often heard of from his friends, had it in his thoughts to have
returned to Japan, without considering the danger to which he exposed
himself, and almost forgetting the murder which had caused his flight,
according to the custom of criminals, who blind themselves in those
occasions, and whom divine justice oftentimes brings back to the same
place where they had committed their offence. Whereupon, he went again to
sea, and having made some little stay in a port of China, he pursued his
voyage. Already some Japonian islands were in sight, when there arose a
furious tempest, which endangered the sinking of the ship, and which in
four days brought him back into the same port of China, from whence he
had set out. This was to Anger a favourable effect of God's providence;
for the same hand which drives the guilty to the precipice, sometimes
preserves them from falling into it, and pulls them back, after a
miraculous manner.

The Japonese, very happily for himself, met there Alvarez Vaz, just ready
to set sail for Malacca. The Portuguese, who loved Anger, reproved
him for his impatience, and offered to reconduct him to the place which
he had so abruptly l