Japan and the Japanese

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s THIRD VISIT. 73
which are employed by turns alike by the Romish and by the Buddh-
ist clergy. One is by showing a contempt not merely for elegances,
but even for common comforts and ordinary decencies ; the other, by
pomp, show and display. Xavier, on his way to Miako, entered
the city of Amanguchi barefoot and meanly clad, and had, as we
have stated, beec hooted and stoned by the populace. He now re-
turned thither again from Firando handsomely clothed, and taking
with him certain presents and recommendatory letters from the Por-
tuguese viceroy of the Indies and the governor of Malacca,
addressed to the Japanese princes, but of which as yet he had made
no use. Demanding an audience of the king, he was received with
respect, and soon obtained leave to preach, and an unoccupied house
of the bonzes to live in. Here, being soon surrounded by crowds, he
renewed, say his biographers, the miracle of tongues, not only in
preaching fluently in Japanese and in Chinese to the numerous merchants
of that nation who traded there, but in being able by a sin-
gle answer to satisfy a multitude of confused questions which the
eager crowd simultaneously put to him. Such was his success that,
in less than two months, five hundred persons, most of them of con-
sideration, received baptism ; and, though the king soon began to
grow less favorable, the converts increased, during less than a year
that he remained there, to three thousand.
The eed thus planted, Xavier resolved to return to the Indies
for a fresh supply of laborers ; and, having heard of the arrival of
a Portuguese vessel at Fucheo, in the kingdom of Bungo, leaving
de Torres and Fernandez at Amanguchi, he proceeded to Fucheo
for the purpose of embarking.
Among the merchants in this ship was Fernam Mendez Pinto,
now in Japan for the third time, and who gives at some length the
occurrences that took place after Xavier's arrival at Fucheo, where
he was received with great respect by the Portuguese, of whom
more than thirty went out on horseback to meet him.
The young king, whose name was Civan, had already obtained,
through intercourse with Portuguese merchants, some knowledge of
their religion. He invited Xavier to an audience, to which the
Portuguese merchants accompanied him with so grand a display as
somewhat to shock the modesty of the saint, but which strongly
impressed in his favor the people of Bungo, to whom he had been
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