eft; withall telling him, that, according to all
appearances, the Father by this time was returned from the Moluccas.
Anger, who still carried about him a troubled conscience, and thereby was
easily induced to any proposition which tended to compose it, followed
the advice of Vaz, and returned with him.

Coming on shore, he there found George Alvarez, the same person who had
brought him the first time to Molucca. Alvarez, surprised to see him once
again, told him, that Father Xavier was returned from the Moluccas, and
immediately brought Anger to his presence. The Father, who foresaw, not
only that this Japonian should be the first Christian of that kingdom,
but also, by his means, the gospel should be preached in it, was
transported with joy at the first sight of him, and embraced him with
exceeding tenderness. The sight of the saint, and his embracements, gave
such consolations to Anger, that he no longer doubted of receiving an
entire satisfaction from him. Understanding, in some measure, the
Portuguese language, Xavier himself assured him, that the disquiets of
his mind should be dissipated, and that he should obtain that spiritual
repose, in search of which he had undertaken so long a voyage; but that
before he could arrive to it, it concerned him first to understand and
practise the law of the true God, who alone could calm the troubles of
his heart, and set it in a perpetual tranquillity. Anger, who desired
nothing so much as to have his conscience in repose, and who was charmed
with the great goodness of the Father, offered himself to be directed in
all things by him. The servant of God instructed him in the principles of
faith, of which his friends, the Portuguese, had already given him some
knowledge, as far as men of their profession were capable of teaching
him. But to the end his conversion might be more solid, he thought it
convenient to send him and his servants to the seminary of Goa, there to
be more fully taught the truths and practice of Christianity before their
baptism. The Father had yet a further purpose in it, that these first
fruits of Japonian Christianity should be consecrated to God by the
Bishop Don John d'Albuquerque, in the capital city of the Indies.

Since in his voyage to Goa he was to visit the fishing coast, he would
not take the three Japonians with him, and gave the care of conducting
them to George Alvarez. He only wrote by them to the rector of the
College of St Paul, giving him o