he regarded somehow as sanctuaries—­sometimes saying his beads, sometimes holding colloquies with the Holy Trinity, Christ, and our Lady the Virgin.  A naturally irritable temper he had so completely overcome by virtue and diligence that the fathers whom he accompanied on their missions wished for no one more kindly; they could hardly have had anyone more diligent and more ready to do anything.  But as witnesses of his virtue Francisco had not only the priests of his home but also those of other places; for when he died he was away among them, attending to the preparation of rice—­offering to all a good example, as he first sent to his superiors a report of his business by letter; and, as he was to return no more, he sent his last farewell to his companions.  A place of burial was given to him by the priest who has in charge the village of Abla in Luzon, by whom the funeral rites also were performed most honorably, a great multitude of Indians attending them.

The Missions at Octon and to the Malucas

XIII.  In addition to our accustomed labors with the Spaniards and Indians of Arevalo, there has been another of no small importance with a large force of troops, who undertook an expedition to the Malucas.  No trifling benefit was carried to the foreigners by Father Francisco Gonzalez, who had been called back thence to the town of Zebu to take the four vows.  On his journey he brought back into the way the Indians everywhere, who were turning aside to their madness and their idols.  He reestablished Christian customs, baptized children and adults, made stable their fickle and inconstant marriages, and did many more things of the same kind—­which, though unwritten, are understood.  The following event should not lack a pen.  A man entangled by lewd delights, but moved by the fact that he had no example among the repentant people, or by the influence of a festival just then announced, had settled himself to a proper life; but rising in the middle of the night he went out from his house, and was longing for his accustomed delights.  While he was doing so, behold two specters, very large and horribly black, wrapped in hanging cloaks, appeared to him.  The unhappy man dared to annoy them by approaching and speaking to them.  Without answering, they snatched him up and carried him high in air, filling everything with his screams and cries, and struggling in vain.  His neighbors, awakened and following the sound of the voice, went round the whole village without finding anything.  At last at dawn they found the man among the thick bramble-bushes on the mountains, his body all bruised, and himself half-dead and speechless.  When they found him, they took him to our church, and the prayers of many were offered for him, and remedies were applied.  At last he recovered his senses and his speech, and cried aloud that he had been punished by the just judgment of God, since he had for a long time neglected the precepts that he had received at confession, and had not done the things becoming a Christian.  He then went on to say that when the demons carried him off, they took him to a deep black cave; and just as they were about to hurl him down into it, he was delivered by the intervention of God, to whom he had commended himself.  Thus, having confessed his sins, he put on a better way of living.