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	;[40]: If you wish to continue to send me things for the mission, what I need most at the moment and which would give me the most pleasure is to have some religious books. Ours have been lost. For preference choose the lives of saints. <ref> [note from the author on an angle in the margin:] If you could procure a certain number of copies of a small work which is sold in Toulouse, at the shop of Garrigues, bookbinder, Boulbone n° 26, entitled Manual of a Christian serviceman, you would put me in a position to do some good amongst the sailors who I have occasion to see. It is a book which suits them very well and which I have already found useful. It is short and that is what is needed for our sailors, whose souls deserve our care. </ref>		;[40]: If you wish to continue to send me things for the mission, what I need most at the moment and which would give me the most pleasure is to have some religious books. Ours have been lost. For preference choose the lives of saints. <ref> [note from the author on an angle in the margin:] If you could procure a certain number of copies of a small work which is sold in Toulouse, at the shop of Garrigues, bookbinder, Boulbone n° 26, entitled Manual of a Christian serviceman, you would put me in a position to do some good amongst the sailors who I have occasion to see. It is a book which suits them very well and which I have already found useful. It is short and that is what is needed for our sailors, whose souls deserve our care. </ref>

	;[41]: Goodbye, my dear Gabriel, goodbye. Courage and prayers. I have opened my heart to you, recounted our suffering. I must tell you, so that you know everything, that I am unwavering. ''Virtus in infirmitate perficitur''. <ref> Cf. 2 Co 12.9: ''et dixit mihi: Sufficit tibi gratia mea; nam virtus in infirmitate perficitur'' (but his answer was: “My grace is all you need; power comes to its full strength in weakness.”) Comfort our good parents in always reassuring them of a God who watches over us; they have too strong a faith to not understand that this is the best of all protections. I embrace you from the bottom of my heart in Jesus and Mary, your affectionate brother,		;[41]: Goodbye, my dear Gabriel, goodbye. Courage and prayers. I have opened my heart to you, recounted our suffering. I must tell you, so that you know everything, that I am unwavering. ''Virtus in infirmitate perficitur''. <ref> Cf. 2 Co 12.9: ''et dixit mihi: Sufficit tibi gratia mea; nam virtus in infirmitate perficitur'' (but his answer was: “My grace is all you need; power comes to its full strength in weakness.”)</ref> Comfort our good parents in always reassuring them of a God who watches over us; they have too strong a faith to not understand that this is the best of all protections. I embrace you from the bottom of my heart in Jesus and Mary, your affectionate brother,
	:::::Xavier Montrouzier,		:::::Xavier Montrouzier,
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	;[35]: At San Cristobal, some time before our departure, a great warrior died. To honour his ancestors, a human sacrifice was necessary and such was the enthusiasm for finding this person that it was resolved that no one would touch any coconuts until he was found. This would perhaps make many people shudder, but for us, we see such horrors so often that we talk about it as if it was something very ordinary.		;[35]: At San Cristobal, some time before our departure, a great warrior died. To honour his ancestors, a human sacrifice was necessary and such was the enthusiasm for finding this person that it was resolved that no one would touch any coconuts until he was found. This would perhaps make many people shudder, but for us, we see such horrors so often that we talk about it as if it was something very ordinary.

	;[36] Do you want to know what is the god of the people of San Cristobal? Alas! It is the snake, before which they offer libations and of which the most devoted carefully preserve the image. As for the powers attributed to it, it lifts the heart of those who have respect for this divinity. According to them, it rouses them to war and they know that it is responsible when a leading warrior is seized with a sort of trembling which resembled the convulsions of the Sybils.		;[36]: Do you want to know what is the god of the people of San Cristobal? Alas! It is the snake, before which they offer libations and of which the most devoted carefully preserve the image. As for the powers attributed to it, it lifts the heart of those who have respect for this divinity. According to them, it rouses them to war and they know that it is responsible when a leading warrior is seized with a sort of trembling which resembled the convulsions of the Sybils.

	;[37]: The lives of our savages are occupied with doing harm. Given free rein to all their passions, knowing no other control than brutal force, once they are the most powerful they believe that anything is permitted. From this stem the thefts which are committed in their homes, the murders, the wars. Hates are perpetuated and transmitted with mother’s milk. A child of two years hates the enemies of his tribe and his tiny hands help to make weapons. I repeat, if one could see the savages, no sacrifice would too dear to help in the work of their conversion.		;[37]: The lives of our savages are occupied with doing harm. Given free rein to all their passions, knowing no other control than brutal force, once they are the most powerful they believe that anything is permitted. From this stem the thefts which are committed in their homes, the murders, the wars. Hates are perpetuated and transmitted with mother’s milk. A child of two years hates the enemies of his tribe and his tiny hands help to make weapons. I repeat, if one could see the savages, no sacrifice would too dear to help in the work of their conversion.
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	:::::::::Woodlark, 13th October, 1847		:::::::::Woodlark, 13th October, 1847

	;[42]: Post Script. Please pass on to Henri the details that I have given you on the happenings in New Caledonia. Farewell.		;[42]: Post Script. Please pass on to Henri the details that I have given you on the happenings in New Caledonia. Farewell.

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