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The incumbent of that benefice wrote me, several months later, that they were persevering, and setting a rare example in virtue. "The time for my departure and my return from Tanai arrived, in accordance with the orders of holy obedience. Such was the sorrow, and so many were the tears of those poor people that I was constrained thereby to weep for compassion.
'Big camp at Tanai, I suppose? 'Pretty big. It has to feed our desert-column somehow. 'Is that far off? 'Between thirty and forty miles in an infernal thirsty country. 'Is the country quiet between Tanai and our men? 'More or less. I shouldn't care to cross it alone, or with a subaltern's command for the matter of that, but the scouts get through it in some extraordinary fashion.
Up to this time we have in this island three thousand three hundred Christians, and I am confident in the Divine goodness that by next year there will not be one man who is not baptized." The mission held in Tanai. Tanai is a beautiful and thickly-settled river in the great island called Negros, on the side which forms a strait with the island of Sebu.
This priest, in his great affection for our humble Society, and influenced by seeing the results of our fathers' labors in those islands aided by the demand of the natives of Tanai themselves, who had at various times asked for us so urgently requested our presence there that at last the authorities were obliged to consent.
You ought to lie up in hospital for a while. I've had a turn of it myself. It's as bad as being blind. 'So I find it. When does this armoured train go? 'At six o'clock. It takes an hour to cover the seven miles. 'Are the Fuzzies on the rampage eh? 'About three nights a week. Fact is I'm in acting command of the night-train. It generally runs back empty to Tanai for the night.
However, the debate was soon reopened by Jacopo di Tanai de' Nerli, a youth of considerable spirit, who warmly seconded Corsini's words; but he too presently began to hesitate, and his father, rising in great confusion, sought to excuse him in the eyes of the assembly by saying that he was young and foolish. Lastly Piero di Gino Capponi rose to his feet.
The city of Tanai is well fortified, and in the midst thereof the people sow and reap. It is fifteen miles in extent. Here is the palace of the Nasi called Salmon. And in Teima dwells Hanan the Nasi, his brother. It is a beautiful city, and contains gardens and plantations. And Tilmas is likewise a great city; it contains about 100,000 Jews.
Overjoyed that they had assigned this field to Father Gabriel Sanchez, whom he held in great esteem, the said Don Diego went in person to Bohol with a ship, expressly to convey Father Sanchez, and carried him to their Tanai.
For Tanai de' Nerli he executed another panel in S. Salvadore, without Florence; and for his friend Piero del Pugliese he painted a scene with little figures, executed with so much art and diligence that when another citizen besought him to make a second like it, he refused, saying that it was not possible to do it.
The new ambassadors were elected on November 5th, and consisted of Pandolfo Rocellai, Giovanni Cavalcanti, Piero Capponi, Tanai de' Nerli, and Savonarola. The latter allowed the others to precede him to Lucca, where they hoped to meet the King, while he followed on foot according to his usual custom, accompanied by two of his brethren.
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