hter 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 arr