was so moved with the cries and lamentations of the mother, that, taking
the dead by the hand, he revived him with these words: "Francis, in the
name of Jesus Christ, arise." The youth thus raised, believed from that
moment, that he was no more his own, and that he was obliged to
consecrate that life to God, which was so miraculously restored: In
effect he did it, and out of acknowledgment to Xavier, took the habit of
the Society. When the mortality was almost ceased, the saint pursued his
design of the embassy to China, and treated with Don Alvarez d'Atayda,
the governor of Malacca, on whom the viceroy had reposed the trust of so
important an affair Don Alvarez had much approved this enterprize, when
Xavier had first opened it, at his return from Japan, and had even
promised to favour it with all his power. But envy and interest are two
passions, which stifle the most reasonable thoughts, and make men forget
their most solemn protestations.

The governor had a grudging to Pereyra, who, the year before, had refused
to lend him ten thousand crowns; and could not endure, that a merchant
should be sent ambassador to the greatest monarch in the world. He said,
"That certainly that Pereyra, whom the viceroy had empowered by his
letters, was some lord of the court of Portugal, and not James Pereyra,
who had been domestic servant to Don Gonsalvo de Cotigno," But that which
most disturbed him, was, that, besides the honour of such an embassy, the
merchant should make so vast a profit of his wares, which he would sell
off at an excessive rate in China. The governor said, "That in his own
person were to be considered the services of the count his father; and
that those hundred thousand crowns, which would be gained at least by
Pereyra, were a more suitable reward for the son of Atayda, than for the
valet de chambre of Cotigno." With such grating thoughts as these, he
sought occasions to break off the voyage; yet he Would not declare
himself at first; and the better to cover his design, or not to seem
unthankful to Father Xavier, he fed him with fair promises. For the holy
man had procured him the command of captain-major of the sea, and himself
had brought him the provisions for that place: because when first the
Father had opened his purpose of going into China, Atayda seemed to have
espoused the project with great affection, and engaged himself to make it
succeed, in case the ports and navigations of the Portuguese were once
dep