my priest that I had left in the Brazils; but Father Simon did not

come up to his character by a great deal; for though this friar had

no appearance of a criminal levity in him, yet he had not that fund

of Christian zeal, strict piety, and sincere affection to religion

that my other good ecclesiastic had.

But to leave him a little, though he never left us, nor solicited

us to go with him; we had something else before us at first, for we

had all this while our ship and our merchandise to dispose of, and