For in order to establish fixed residences for Missioners in the Patagonian desert according as the natives unite in colonies or villages, he obviously requires a much greater number, of priests, catechists and mums, as also a goodly store of household chattels, provisions and diverse articles, indispensable both for daily sustenance and divine worship..

 I also feel pleasure in participating to you, that (in order to render more secure the entire conversion of Patagonia) we have resolved to open a way on the Western side of Chili, and already a band of Salesians have gone there to found a college in the city of Conception..