_ 44 _ than the matter about which the lawsuit is brought is worth, even though the solicitors and clerks pester them with this. Endeavour to give the Spiritual Exercises to these solicitors and clerks, because these are the ones who instigate all the lawsuits. You will remain in Ormuz until you receive a reply from me about what you should do. You will write to me in detail from Ormuz to Francisco Peres in Malacca about all the progress that you are making there. Francisco Peres will forward your letters to me from Malacca to Japan, if God considers it right and in his service for me to go to Japan. If you do not receive a reply from me within the space of three years, you will remain there, because that is my wish, even if they write to you from India. If you have no reply from me after three years, then stay in Ormuz until you are ordered to do otherwise by the Rector of the College of Santa Fe. You will thus write in great detail to whoever is the Rector in that house concerning the progress you are making there. Moreover, as I have said, you will wait for my message for three years, even if the Rector of that house should order you to act differently. At the end of three years, having reported to him the progress you are making and how much you will be missed
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