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This mission of Nyanza already has several hundred neophytes and 14 missionaries, not including the auxiliaries and the Brothers. It has three big mission stations: the first in Uganda, the second right at the southern end of Lake Nyanza and the third in Tabora.

For a long time now, I have not found an occasion to renew with your Eminence the relations which have remained particularly dear to me and which, at the time of my journey to London in 1888, thanks to your Eminence, has such a happy result for the resolution of the question of slavery according to the desire of the Holy Father.

However, for this, Gentlemen, funds are needed, and you alone can provide me with them; I am already committed for a quite considerable sum. The rent of the house that serves as the Seminary costs three thousand francs. The upkeep of the pupils and their teachers costs eight thousand five hundred francs.

Do excuse me, Most Reverend Father, if I do not write to you with my own hand. I am prevented by an eye inflammation. Nevertheless, if the eyes of the body are sick, those of the heart will not be so to follow, from a distance, in gratitude, the progress of your holy works, which I earnestly urge Our Lord to bless with even greater abundance.