Avril's account of his journey has been shockingly "done out of French" by a translator who prudently withheld his name. It was "published in London, at Maidenhead, over against St. Dunstan's Church, in Fleet Street." Its date is 1693. From it we learn that Father Avril started from Marseilles and made for Civita Vecchia, after paying his respects in Rome to Father General de Noyelle, he went to Leghorn, where he took ship on a vessel that was convoyed by a man-of-war called the "Thundering Jupiter." Passing by Capraia, Elba, Sardinia, and nearly wrecked off the "Coast of Candy," his ship dropped anchor in the Lerneca roadstead after three days' voyage, but without the "Thundering Jupiter." It was still at sea. He touched at Cyprus and Alexandretta, then proceeded to Aleppo, crossing the plain of Antioch in a caravan. He was fleeced by an Armenian who professed to be a friend of the Jesuits, then he crossed the Tigris or Tiger, and arrived at Erzerum in time for an earthquake. Continuing his journey through the intervening territory to what he calls the "Caspian Lake", he finally reached Moscow, after being almost burned to death on the Volga, when his ship took fire. At Moscow he was welcomed by the German Jesuits who had a house there, for Prince Gallichin (Galitzin) was then prime minister. He was soon bidden to depart, and crossed a part of Muscovy, Lithuania and White Russia, reaching Warsaw on March 12, 1686. It was eighteen months since he had left Leghorn. He made effort after effort to get back to Muscovy, but in vain. Ambassadors and princes and even Louis XIV found the Czar obdurate, and so, after two years of unsuccessful endeavor, Avril arrived at Constantinople, after being imprisoned by the Turks on his way thither. Finally, he reached Marseilles, having proved, at least, that the road through Russia would have to be abandoned; hence, it was determined to make those overland journeys in the future through the territory of the Shah of Persia. CHAPTER IX BATTLE OF THE BOOKS Aquaviva and the Spanish Opposition--Vitelleschi--The "Monita Secreta"; Morlin--Roding--"Historia Jesuitici Ordinis"-- "Jesuiticum Jejunium"--"Speculum Jesuiticum"--Pasquier--Mariana --"Mysteries of the Jesuits"--"The Jesuit Cabinet"--"Jesuit Wolves"--"Teatro Jesuítico"--"Morale Pratique des Jésuites"-- "Conjuratio Sulphurea"--"Lettres Provinciales"--"Causeries du Lundi" and Bourdaloue--Prohibition of publication by Louis XIV-- Pastoral of the Bishops of Sens--Santarelli--Escobar--Anti-Coton --"Les Descouvertes"--Norbert.