Still, because their death has not been verified or related in detail, the masses which should be said in this province for Father Bilbao, in the other two provinces for their two fathers, and in the province of Philippinas for all three, have not been ordered.

I, for my part, have many to say for them if dead--or if alive, in case our Lord has spared them.

It has also been said that the cargo of the flagship floated ashore.

I hope that our boxes of books which were in it were spared, for, so far as such things are concerned, I feel the loss of them greatly, although their loss is not to be mentioned in connection with that of our fathers.

If the Divine Majesty has chosen to inflict this heavy blow upon us, _supra modu, sed domini sumos et iustos est et rectu iudiciu eius_.