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You will also notice how, almost constantly from the start, one confrere after another at the Tanganyika Mission has failed to obey that essential Rule of our Society which is to be always three confreres together, except in rare and exceptional cases.

But women had remained outside this movement. This is because [male] missionaries, because of the prejudices current in the country, cannot approach women directly. Only other women are able to approach pagan women freely, to heal their wounds, to touch their hearts in this way. But where to find religious sisters who agree to devote themselves to such a mission, to brave the fatigue of long months of travel through those deserts, where you cannot even think of using beasts of burden, because a fly will bite them and cause them to die!