manner had been
willing to show His bounty to them, inasmuch as the said two fathers
had exercised their ministry with great spiritual fruit in that place
from which they had set out on that day.

Residence of Alangala

In this residence four priests and three brethren give their energy to
cultivating the vineyard of the Lord. They go afoot through the rivers,
the pools, and the marshes, the water often reaching to their navels,
and the sun burning above them. But since their labor is wrought
through the love of God, He, in His unmeasured kindness, never
deprives them of His solace in the utmost perils. They write that,
from the end of last year up to the present time, more than fourteen
hundred have received the sacred washing of regeneration. They give
diligent attention to the divine offices, which are celebrated in
this residence with greater magnificence than elsewhere, on account
of the convenience of three Indian chapels, which far surpass the
Spanish. They follow the practice of singing _Salve Regina_, in honor
of our Lady the Virgin; and, throughout Lent, of singing the psalm
_Miserere_ to accompany the discipline.

Several missions have been established in various places, with
manifold increase of baptisms and other spiritual fruits. I will give
an account of some. While a father was living in one little district,
an Indian, crippled in both hands and feet, made his way straight to
the father by boat, and that alone, to the astonishment of all--God
and his guardian angel doubtless impelling the boat. He begged the
father for baptism, and declared that the author of his request had
been a certain Spaniard who had told him that all those who did not
accept the Christian law would be carried off to hell.

The greatest results have been obtained from the schools, for the
pupils have each of them become teachers in the paternal homes of
all the domestics; and by the good example of their lives they incite
others to accept the true doctrine. A boy, a cantor in church, being
solicited by a Spaniard to perpetrate a foul deed, answered: "Sir,
I know well by what remedy you should drive away that temptation
of yours. Let us recite together a rosary in honor of the blessed
Virgin Mary, and instantly all these wicked thoughts will vanish in
smoke." Thus by the newly converted Christian he was instructed who
ought rightly to have been the teacher and master of others.

In the island Leita there were counted