CATHOLICISM IN THE MOHJCOAS, 



ti ves, as was also Barbosa, a gentleman of Lisbon, who 

 Kad previously visited and described lodiaj and from 

 whose writings we have ft'equently had occasion to 

 quote. From Zebu, Magellan's companions sailed to 

 the northern part of Borneo and Tidore. Thence 

 they continued southward, touching at Bachian and 

 Timur, in 1522^ and finally arrived safely hack 

 in Spain, having completed tlie first circumnaviga- 

 tion of our globe. This great voyage was accom- 

 plished nearly a century before the Pilgrims landed on 

 our Kew-England shores. Soon after the Portuguese 

 had established themselves at Ternate, they began to 

 teach the natives their Catholic creed^ and in 1535 the 

 native king, who had accepted that religion and been 

 chiistened at Goa, returned to Temate and began 

 his reign. Other native princes then proposed to 

 the Portuguese to become Catholics, if they would 

 take them under their protection, and thus CathoH- 

 eism began to spread rapidly, but the same year 

 all the native converts were destroyed by Moham- 

 medans, headed by Cantalino, who was styled the 

 Moluecan Vesper/' In 1546, Francis Xavier,* a 

 Catholic priestj visited Temate. He afterward went 

 back to Malacca and proceeded to China and Japan, 

 and rettiming from tbe latter coimtry died on an isl- 

 and off Macao, neai' Canton, The Dutch first came 

 to Temate under Admiral Houtman, in 1578. In 

 1605, under Stephen van der Hagen, they stormed 

 and took Temate, and thus drove the Portuguese out 

 of the Moluccas, and the island, since that date, has 



* He hm since been canonized, and is worthily considered by hi* 

 people a mcKiel of piety and devotion to the mijjdonary cause. 



