... These religious did not find in
the provinces proof of the desires that had been told them. Very few
Japanese were converted, and fewer were disposed toward it, for the
king and tonos [chiefs] ... did not love our religion." Don Pedro
sends the promised ship to Japan laden with "dye-wood, deerskins,
raw silk, and various other articles." Thus Japanese demands are met,
and the emperor is satisfied with the diplomatic answer returned
to him. Meanwhile "Don Pedro's thought bore on the recovery of the
Malucas." Letters pass between him and the Portuguese commander Andrea
Furtado de Mendoza in regard to the expedition, and aid from the
Philippines, and the hostilities of the Dutch. (The Jesuit brother
Gaspar Gomez had been sent by Acuna from Mexico to Spain, to show
the necessity and advantages of the expedition; after various delays
it was set on foot, and Furtado obtained many successes in Amboina,
where he had some encounters with the Dutch. The king of Ternate
asked help from Java and Mindanao.
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