gained the power of speech; then he made a full confession,
and on the following day was sound and well.

Part of the employment of our fathers in that city was with the
Sangleys from the kingdom of China; this was exchanged (and for
the better) for labors among the natives of that land; and we took
charge of a little settlement called Mandavi, half a legua distant
from our house; they are a simple people, docile and inoffensive by
nature. Father Miguel Gomez recently sent us, in a letter, this account
of a visit which he made there: "I made inquiries, to learn who had not
yet been baptized, and seventy were brought to me, besides some others
whom the Bissayans call _Daotangatao_, which signifies, 'People who
are good for nothing;' these people are wont to reply, when we preach
to them the law of God: 'I am good for nothing at being a Christian
or learning the prayers.' I began to preach to all these people
the truths of our holy faith, and the foolishness of their divatas,
or idols. Our Lord was pleased that they should learn the doctrine
in a very short time, although they were old men and obstinate, and
ask for holy baptism with a devotion which caused my admiration. The
day had scarcely dawned when old men and women, septuagenarians,
were at the door, in order to become Christians. I baptized sixty
of these persons--among them the most influential chief of that
district, a man seventy years old, Andug by name--and six others,
infant boys. All this has been a source of great consolation to me,
and I hope in our Lord that He will vouchsafe much to those people."

Many conversions are made in Bohol. Chapter LXX.

From the end of the year one thousand six hundred to the spring of the
year one thousand six hundred and one, that fire which the Son of God,
Jesus Christ our Lord, came to earth to light, so earnestly desiring
to set the world aflame, seemed to burn with great heat in the island
of Bohol--as may be seen by the letters of our fathers who at that
time had gone thither. The most interesting letter, as giving the most
detailed account, is, if I am not mistaken, one from Father Valerio
de Ledesma, rector of Sebu, to the father-visitor; he writes thus:

"In this letter I shall give an account of what our Lord was pleased
to accomplish in the island of Bohol after I departed from Sebu with
Father Ximenez and Brother Dionisio, on the twenty-ninth of May
in the year one thousand six hundred. When the council