Some Time After, Twenty-Seven Natives,
Men Of Good Fashion, Being Assembled In An Hospital Or Christian
Leper-House, Where
They had mass performed, and this coming to the
knowledge of the emperor, they were all commanded to be shut
Up in a
house for a night, and to be led to execution next day. That same
evening, another man was committed to the same house for debt, who at
his coming was a heathen and quite ignorant of Christ or his holy
religion; but, next morning, when the officer called at the door for the
Christians to come forth for execution, and those who renounced it to
remain behind, this man had been so instructed during the night by the
others, that he came resolutely forth along with the rest, and was
crucified with them.
We departed from Surunga on the 9th of October, and during our journey
towards Miaco we had for the most part much rain, by which the rivers
were greatly swelled, and we were forced to stop by the way, so that it
was the 16th of October before we got there. Miaco is the largest city
in Japan, depending mostly upon trade, and having the chief Fotoqui
or temple of the whole empire, which is all built of freestone, and is
as long as the western end of St Paul's in London from the choir; being
also as high, arched in the roof and borne upon pillars as that is. Many
bonzes are here in attendance for their maintenance, as priests are
among the papists.
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