I tell them that they should do what it is in them to do; and that, if God does not choose to call these people, at least it should not be left undone by the friars.

I shall always insist upon this.
When I spoke of Ternate, I forgot to mention a very important matter, which perhaps is already forgotten.

There was a king in Ternate called Cachil Boleyfe, aged and very prudent, regarded by the Moros as a prophet.

He was taken to Malaca because of a certain crime; and, having been acquitted, he received baptism and died there as a Catholic.

He said that, having no legitimate successor, he constituted King Don Juan the Third of Portugal his heir to the kingdom and islands subject to Ternate.