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Be sure to place the stations among people who are well disposed towards you and if you can safely settle in Mirambo’s territory, set up a foundation there, but do not go and get involved again in dealing like those with King Mtesa.

I am happy to see, from your despatch, that you have overcome your fevers of Mozambique and Quilimane It was no joke, and at one stage I feared, without telling you, that you would suffer a state similar to that of Mgr Gillard. God be praised for having saved you from this.

I am really happy that you have appreciated Brother Theodore as he deserves, he is certainly the most distinguished, the most intelligent, the best we have.

On this occasion I readily give witness, most Holy Father, to the Society of Missionaries of Algiers, for the zeal of their members of whom a number have already shed their blood for the faith, as also for their regularity and for their attachment to the Holy See.