of innumerable provations and perils, - now I say, under the powerful protection of Mary Help of Christians, the time has come when we should take under serious consideration the means [716] of consolidating, perpetuating and vigorously advancing the good work already commenced..

 spreading themselves later on, little by little in Terra-del-Fuego and the Archipelagoes of Chiloe and Magellan, peopled all by innumerable tribes without even an idea of religion or civilization...