On the other hand, I was delighted because His most holy will was being fulfilled in me.

We made a very different voyage [from the one promised], for we were carried from Nangasaqui to this prison of Omura, in company with two religious of St.Dominic and three of our Japanese servants.

They took us through some of the streets of Nangasaqui and finally embarked us for this place, handcuffed and with chains about our necks.

It was daytime, and all the city turned out to see the spectacle and to take leave of us with cries and tears.

Father Fray Thomas, of St.Dominic, and father Fray Apolinar, of St.Francis, with six Japanese, had already been here for some time.