[78] A small city in the province of Badajoz, Spain.

[79] Cf.  La Concepcion’s account (Hist. de Philipinas, iv. pp. 330-366) of the ravages committed by the Dutch; the despatch of a fleet from India at Silva’s request (made through the Jesuits Gomez and Ribera), and its conflicts with Malays and Dutch at Malacca; Silva’s preparations for the joint expedition; his journey to Malacca, and death there; and the return of his fleet to Manila, and failure of all this costly enterprise.  La Concepcion mentions Ribera’s account (p. 344), and says (p. 337); “We have a complete diary, written by the rector of Manila [Ribera], from the twenty-first of November, when they hoisted sail at Cavite”—­that is, when he went on the embassy to India in 1614.  Apparently his account, as here presented, has been synopsized and abridged by Ventura del Arco, who has also borrowed somewhat from Ledesma’s letter (post).

[80] This part of the document is the version of Ribera’s letter which appears in Colin’s Labor evangelica, pp. 802-806.  It is here presented as containing some matter not in the other copy, and as showing the methods of the respective editors.

[81] i.e., Kocchi.  As in all foreign words ending with a vowel, the Portuguese have nasalised the “i.”  In 1505 it was written “Coxi.”  See A.C.  Burnell’s note in Voyage of Linschoten (Hakluyt Society’s publications, London, 1885), i, p. 68.  This city lies some thirty miles north of Cape Comorin.

[82] Pedro de Francisco, S.J., was born at Mala, in the Zaragoza diocese, in 1607.  He was admitted to the Society in 1626, and went to the Indias, where he taught grammar, and for seven years theology.  He labored at Cochin, and became rector of the Macao seminary, whence he was driven by the Dutch.  He was at Macassar in 1652, but his name does not appear in the catalogue for 1655.  See Sommervogel’s Bibliographie.

[83] Alberto Laercio or Laerzio, S.J., was born at Orte in 1557, admitted to the Society in 1576, and set out for the Indies, where he made his profession at Goa, July 9, 1590.  For twelve years he was master of the novitiates, rector of Salsette, and associate-visitor, for three years vice-provincial, and for six years provincial.  He died at Cochin in 1630.  See Sommervogel’s Bibliographie.

[84] Francisco Roz, S.J., was born at Gerona in 1557, became a novitiate in 1575, and went to the Indies in 1584, where he labored in the Malabar mission.  In 1601 he was appointed bishop of Angamala, and in 1605, archbishop of Cranganore.  He died at Parur, February 16, 1624.  He wrote a number of treatises and letters.  See Sommervogel’s Bibliographie.

[85] The two Latin phrases read in English, respectively:  “He who desires an episcopate, desires a good work;” and “He gets a hard and fast slavery.”

[86] Sommervogel mentions only that this Jesuit was a Portuguese missionary at Goa in 1608, in which year (December 18) he wrote a letter from Goa.