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Doc. 15 - July 17, 1837

Letter from Jean-Baptiste-François Pompallier to Jean-Claude Colin. D’après l’expédition, APM OOc 418.1

[5] […] Moreover New Zealand, which I expected to be able to penetrate immediately does not offer any favourable opportunity to us. Neither vessels nor ships are in departure for this area at the moment. In truth, there is one, which is American, but it is commanded by Protestants, who said expressly that they would be careful not to let on board Catholic missionaries for this large island. So I am obliged to take advantage of a ship that will take me to Sandwich, while calling in at the Gambier islands and in Tahiti: which will give me the unutterable consolation of meeting up with Monsignor Rouchouse who is in Gambier.

(Rouchouze was Vicar Apostolic of Eastern Oceania.)

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