"As to the Converts these people have made, I have been credibly informed that they are chiefly of the very poor people; and that in the scarce times, their alms of rice have converted more than their preaching; and as to those also have been converted, as they call it, that is, to beads and new images, and belief in the Pope, they have fallen off again, as Rice grew plentiful, and would no longer be Christians than while the Priests administered food to them."