Father Geronimo Rodriguez, who was there, and who had been appointed by our father general in the private assignment, succeeded him in office.
Father Carlos Espinola, of our Society, is still in prison, waiting each day for the crown.

It has incurred to me to insert here a letter which he wrote to the father provincial of this province of Filipinas.

It reads as follows: "The Lord so ordained it that at midnight after St.Lucia's day I was made a prisoner, together with Brother Ambrosio Fernandez, my companion, and Domingo Jorge, a Portuguese at whose house we were seized.

The soldiers told us that they wished us to go on board a ship that was about to sail for the city of Manila.

On the one hand I regretted this, because I was being driven from Japon, and was losing a good opportunity to give my life for the service of God, which for many years I had desired to do.