I Immediately Alarmed All The Rest, And Nothing Was Thought Of But How To Save Ourselves And The Little Goods We Had, When, To Our Great Astonishment, We Found One Of The Doors Barricaded In Such A Manner That We Could Not Open It.

Nothing now could have prevented our perishing in the flames had not those who kindled them omitted to fasten that door near which I was lodged.

We were no longer in doubt that the inhabitants of the town had laid a train, and set fire to a neighbouring house, in order to consume us; their measures were so well laid, that the house was in ashes in an instant, and three of our beds were burnt which the violence of the flame would not allow us to carry away. We spent the rest of the night in the most dismal apprehensions, and found next morning that we had justly charged the inhabitants with the design of destroying us, for the place was entirely abandoned, and those that were conscious of the crime had fled from the punishment. We continued our journey, and came to Gorgora, where we found the fathers met, and the Emperor with them.

Chapter XII

The author is sent into Tigre. Is in danger of being poisoned by the breath of a serpent. Is stung by a serpent. Is almost killed by eating anchoy. The people conspire against the missionaries, and distress them.

My superiors intended to send me into the farthest parts of the empire, but the Emperor over-ruled that design, and remanded me to Tigre, where I had resided before.

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